pretty as a picture

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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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April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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pretty pretty much

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