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sweet summer child

sweet summer child noun: someone who is naive, or who has never experienced hardship.

Noun

sweet summer child (plural sweet summer children)

  1. (idiomatic, often, sarcastic) Someone who is naive, or who has never experienced hardship.
    • Don't think people have tried to put Mario games in order? Oh sweet summer child.2015 February 19, Christopher Castano, “Out Of Control”, in The Georgetown Voice, Georgetown University, page 10
    • "Starts?" I hear you cry, "How can it get any weirder than that?". Oh, my sweet summer children, what George wants me to do while he licks my feet clean is take pictures and humiliate him.2019, Dee Dickens, Duct Tape and Daddy Issues: Phone-Sex Worker Tells All, unnumbered page

Synonyms of sweet summer child

Forms of sweet summer child

pluralsweet summer children

Origin of sweet summer child

As an idiomatic phrase, apparently from the fantasy novel A Game of Thrones (1996) by George R. R. Martin, although isolated prior occurrences of the phrase go back to the 1800s. In the novel, a young boy is called a "sweet summer child" by an old woman, since seasons last for years in the novel's world and he has yet to experience winter. Later popularized by its use in the episode "Lord Snow" (2011) of the television adaptation Game of Thrones.

Questions about sweet summer child

What does sweet summer child mean?
Sweet summer child means someone who is naive, or who has never experienced hardship.
What part of speech is sweet summer child?
Sweet summer child is a noun.
What is the plural of sweet summer child?
The plural of sweet summer child is sweet summer children.

Words near sweet summer child in the dictionary

  1. sweet spirits of nitre
  2. sweet spot
  3. sweet spots
  4. sweet stuff
  5. sweet stuffs
  6. sweet summer child
  7. sweet summer children
  8. Sweet Swan of Avon
  9. Sweet syndrome
  10. sweet talk
  11. sweet talker

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