sweet

home sweet home: seehome.

in your own sweet time (or way) when (or how) you want to, regardless of the possible inconvenience caused to others.

keep someone sweet keep someone well disposed towards yourself, especially by favours or bribery. informal

she's sweet all's well. Australian informal

1964Kylie TennantSummer's Tales 'Everything O.K.?' 'Yep,' said the scrawny man beneath us. 'She's sweet.'

short and sweet: seeshort.

sweet Fanny Adams absolutely nothing at all. informal

☞ Fanny Adams was the youthful victim in a famous murder case in 1867, her body being mutilated and cut to pieces by the killer. With gruesome black humour, her name came to be used as a slang term for a type of tinned meat or stew recently introduced to the Royal Navy; the current meaning developed early in the 20th century. Sweet Fanny Adams is often abbreviated in speech to sweet FA, which is understood by many to be a euphemism for sweet fuck all.

sweet nothings: seenothing.

sweet sixteen sixteen regarded as the characteristic age of prettiness and innocence in a girl.

the sweet spot a particularly fortunate or beneficial circumstance or factor.

☞ The sweet spot on a tennis racket is the point believed by players to deliver the maximum power to the ball. In 1997 a physicist in Australia claimed to have disproved its existence.

2014New Statesman Privately, senior shadow cabinet ministers admit that the economy could hit a 'sweet spot' for Osborne in time for the general election.