sweet
Related to sweet: sweat
sweet
1. adjective, slang Excellent; especially remarkable or outstanding. I got this sweet new computer monitor for just $100 during the store's liquidation sale. He said he could get me a sweet deal on tickets to the football game.
2. adjective, slang Used to emphasize something of one's own, especially when it conflicts or is at odds with someone else. You sure took your sweet time getting here! It doesn't matter how much we argue with him, Tom will always do things his own sweet way.
3. interjection, slang Excellent; fantastic! A: "I just picked up that new video game!" B: "Sweet! Let's go play it!" Oh, sweet—my new headphones arrived in the mail!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
sweet
mod. good; profitable; excellent. I got involved in a sweet deal having to do with a better job.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- (as) sweet as honey
- (as) sweet as pie
- (as) sweet as sugar
- a rose by any other name (would smell as sweet)
- a sweet tooth
- be short and sweet
- be sweet on
- cop it sweet
- do something in your own sweet time/way
- forbidden fruit
- forbidden fruit is the sweetest
- fresh and sweet
- have a sweet tooth
- home sweet home
- in (one's) own sweet time
- in (one's) own sweet way
- keep (one) sweet
- keep somebody sweet
- keep someone sweet
- lay some sweet lines on
- lay some sweet lines on (one)
- lay some sweet lines on someone
- like a child in a sweet shop
- like a child in a sweetshop
- put some sweet lines on (one)
- put some sweet lines on someone
- revenge is sweet
- rose by any other name would smell as sweet
- she's sweet
- she's sweet(, mate)
- short and sweet
- short but sweet
- soft fire makes sweet malt
- stolen fruit is (the) sweetest
- stolen fruit is sweet
- stolen fruit is sweetest
- stolen pleasures are (the) sweetest
- sweet
- sweet and sour
- sweet as honey
- sweet as pie
- sweet baboo
- sweet cherry
- sweet deal
- sweet dreams
- sweet FA
- sweet Fanny Adams
- Sweet Jesus!
- sweet Mary(, mother of God)
- sweet Mary, mother of Jesus
- sweet nothings
- sweet on
- sweet on (one)
- sweet on, be
- sweet sixteen
- sweet spot
- sweet talk
- sweet talk (one) into (doing something)
- sweet tooth
- sweet tooth, (to have) a
- sweet young thing
- sweet-and-sour
- sweet-talk
- take the bitter with the sweet
- that is sweet of (someone)
- that's sweet
- the sweet hereafter
- the sweet smell of success
- the sweet smell of victory
- the sweet spot
- toot sweet
- whisper sweet nothings
- whisper sweet nothings in (one's) ear
- you (can) bet your (sweet) ass
- you (can) bet your (sweet) bippy
- you (can) bet your (sweet) life
- you (can) bet your (sweet) life)
- you (can) bet your (sweet) patoot
- you (can) bet your (sweet) patootie
- You bet your sweet life!
- You bet your sweet patoot!
- You bet your sweet patootie!