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sweet young things

sweet young things is the plural of sweet young thing.

Meaning of sweet young thing

Noun

sweet young thing (plural sweet young things)

  1. (idiomatic) An attractive young woman.
    • I just know he's off spending the night with some sweet young thing he picked up in a bar.
  2. (idiomatic) A sweet-tempered young woman.
    • Isabel's a sweet young thing; but do you think she's so good as that?1908, Henry James, chapter XVIII, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; III), New York edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 264

Questions about sweet young things

What is sweet young things the plural of?
Sweet young things is the plural of sweet young thing.

Words near sweet young things in the dictionary

  1. sweet woodruff
  2. sweet wormwood
  3. sweet wormwoods
  4. sweet yarrow
  5. sweet young thing
  6. sweet young things
  7. Sweet's syndrome
  8. sweet-after-death
  9. sweet-amber
  10. sweet-and-sour
  11. sweet-and-sour sauce

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