sweeter than honey

sweeter than honey

Exceptionally sweet, friendly, or kindly. My grandmother, God rest her soul, was sweeter than honey, but boy could she tell some raunchy jokes! He may seem sweeter than honey right now, but he'll turn on you in an instant if you get in his way.
See also: honey, sweeter
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • (as) sweet as honey
  • sweet as honey
  • sugar
  • (as) sweet as sugar
  • (as) sweet as pie
  • sweet as pie
  • lay some sweet lines on someone
  • a whale of a
  • thanks kindly
  • draw breath
References in classic literature
In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation -- sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion -- the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create.
The Devils Dictionary
His voice is sweeter than honey from the locust, and goes into the ear thrilling like the song of a wren.
The Prairie
"Dorian," she answered, lingering over his name with long-drawn music in her voice, as though it were sweeter than honey to the red petals of her mouth.
Picture Of Dorian Gray
Then uprose smooth-tongued Nestor, the facile speaker of the Pylians, and the words fell from his lips sweeter than honey. Two generations of men born and bred in Pylos had passed away under his rule, and he was now reigning over the third.
Iliad
PPP's senior leader Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah said that friendship between the two countries was higher than Himalayas, deeper than sea and sweeter than honey. 'We are thankful to China for helping Pakistan in its difficult times,' he said.
Pak-China friendship, CPEC discussed at moot
Pak-China friendship is higher than Himalayas, deeper than oceans, sweeter than honey and stronger than steel.
Chinese VP in Pakistan
The global superpower rivalling the US utilised its power potential, forcing the movers of the resolution against the JeM chief to correct the relevant materials and re-submit them for the sanctioning exercise all for the sake of Pak-China friendship that is indeed higher than the Himalayas, deeper than the oceans and sweeter than honey.
An amicable way out
HYDERABAD -- Pakistan-China friendship is higher than mountains, deeper than oceans and sweeter than honey. Both the countries have stood the test of times; have always come to each other's succor without wasting a moment.
Pakistan-China friendship is higher than mountains: moot told
H Y D E R A B A D -- Pakistan-China friendship is higher than mountains, deeper than oceans and sweeter than honey. Both the countries have stood the test of times; have always come to each other's succour without wasting a moment.
Pakistan-China friendship is higher than mountains: moot told
The Pakistan-China friendship is higher than mountains, deeper than oceans and sweeter than honey and both the countries stood the test of times have always come to each other succor without wasting a moment, he said and added it exist extensive common cultural ground and enormous shared future economic potential for both China and Pakistan to pursue.
Sindh University organizes Pakistan-China Cultural Caravan
'Pak-China relations can truly be described as higher than the mountain, deeper than the sea, and sweeter than honey,' said the Chines diplomat and called for a proposal from Sargodha University for establishing Confucius Centre in Sargodha to promote Chinese language and culture.
Sargodha University holds Pak-China friendship art exhibition
UAF Registrar Muhammad Hussain said that Pak-China friendship is deeper than sea and higher than Himalayas and sweeter than honey as people of both countries have close heartiest feelings for each others.
China to double mango import from Pakistan
The Chinese government often professes a bond "deeper than the deepest ocean, sweeter than honey" with its old ally Pakistan, and construction is under way on the China-Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC), a [pound sterling]44 billion, 1,990-mile trade route from Xinjiang through Gilgit-Baltistan to Pakistan's southern coast.
Chinese crackdown separates Pakistani husbands from Uighur wives
The Chinese government often professes a bond "deeper than the deepest ocean, sweeter than honey" with its old ally Pakistan, and construction is under way on the China-Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC), a Au44 billion, 1,990-mile trade route from Xinjiang through Gilgit-Baltistan to Pakistan's southern coast.
Chinese crackdown separates Pakistani husbands from Uighur wives
The Chinese sought to downplay the embarrassing situation for the "iron brotherhood" and the relationship that boasts to be "higher than the Himalayas and deeper than the deepest sea in the world, and sweeter than honey".
What the FATF is going on?