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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pretty as a picture

The brown coconut sugar deepens the orange color of the potatoes and what you pull from the oven is as pretty as a picture.

From Salon ● Nov. 9, 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

Jest a neat, spry little gal, pretty as a picture and real good.

From The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies by Ridgwell Cullum