pretty as a picture

Idioms  

1. Very attractive, as in She looked pretty as a picture in her new hat. The noun picture alone was used to describe beautiful objects from the early 1800s on; this locution, however, dates from about 1900.

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Example Sentences

Fresh, simple and delicious, they're equally perfect packed in mason jars for a picnic, or dressed up and presented pretty as a picture in your mother's favorite Easter china for an elegant supper or brunch.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2023

Lord's pretty as a picture now, cotton wool clouds and plenty of blue sky in between.

From BBC • May 30, 2010

Meg Chambers Steedle is pretty as a picture and relentlessly perky as Corie.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2010

With the right eye, it’s all pretty as a picture.

From Washington Post

Johnson Boller, however, turned his whole attention to Mary, perched on the arm of a chair, distressed enough but self-contained, pretty as a picture.

From In And Out by Franklin, Edgar, [pseud.]