melt in one's mouth

1. Taste very good, as in This cake is wonderful—it just melts in one's mouth. This expression, first recorded in 1693, at first alluded to the tenderness of some food that therefore did not require chewing, but it had acquired its present meaning by about 1850. Also see butter wouldn't melt.

Example Sentences

It certainly did melt in one’s mouth.

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To-day, however, they ate nothing, though the frittata was fit to melt in one’s mouth.

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The eggs were done to a turn, the bacon crisp, the coffee like drops of amber, and the hot biscuits would fairly melt in one's mouth.

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The Professor's wife taught Mary to make superior pastry, so flaky and tender as to fairly melt in one's mouth; but Mary never could learn from her the knack of making a dainty, crimped edge to her pies with thumb and forefinger, although it looked so very simple when she watched "Frau Schmidt" deftly roll over a tiny edge as a finish to the pie.

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Come now, you must give me some lessons in your mystery of making cakes that melt in one's mouth.

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