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Meaning of butter would not melt in someone's mouth | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR C2

Definitions

Phrase. [C2]

Examples

“All unmarried women are necessarily in the market; but if they behave themselves properly they make no signs. Now there was Griselda Grantly; of course she intended to get herself a husband, and a very grand one she has got; but she always looked as though butter would not melt in her mouth. It would have been very wrong to call her a marrying girl.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth butyro- buy and hold buy cheap, buy twice buy high, sell higher buy low, sell high