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

The arched footbridge above a sun-dappled creek, the clouds scudding over a scene of pastoral calm, a toddler in sunglasses and a comically large hat: pretty as a picture, each one.

From Washington Post

It wasn't jest her looks, for she always was as pretty as a picture, but she was as nice-mannered, well-behaved a gyirl as you'd want to see.

From Aunt Jane of Kentucky by Strong, Beulah