all smiles

all smiles

Visibly happy or cheerful. I know Allison had a rough week, but she was all smiles when I saw her today. My sweet little daughter has the best disposition—she's always all smiles!
See also: all, smile
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • be all smiles
  • die
  • die laughing
  • look (at something) through rose-coloured spectacles
  • spectacle
  • sunny side
  • the sunny side
  • look (at something) through rose-tinted glasses
  • look (at something) through rose-tinted spectacles
  • look (at something) through rose-colored glasses
References in periodicals archive
A LETTING agent is all smiles after raising funds for charity.
Fundraising's a piece of cake for letting agent
All smiles are positive, but some smiles are more positive than others.
Different kinds of infants" smiles in the first six months and contingency to maternal affective behavior
Cohn adds, "This is very exciting work in computational behavioral science that integrates psychology, computer vision, speech processing and machine learning to generate new knowledge C* with clinical implications." He says this "is an important reminder that not all smiles are positive.
Smiling With Frustration? Computer Knows