made of sugar

Adjective

made of sugar (not comparable)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, of, sugar.
2. (humorous) Reluctant to step into the rain.
   • She shook herself like a poodle, saying that she was quite used to such weather, and was not made of sugar, to melt away beneath a few drops of rain.1896, Émile Zola, The Fat and the Thin, page 142
   • When I called next day to state the reason, he said, "Are you made of sugar or salt that you thought the rain would destroy you."1930, John Barber Scott, An Englishman at Home and Abroad: 1792-1828, with Some Recollections of Napoleon: Being Extracts from the Diaries of J. B. Scott of Bungay, Suffolk; with an Appendix