英语词汇butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth. Men have been saying this about demure women since the early 16th century; in fact, Heywood listed it as a proverb in 1536: the lady so prim and proper, so cold, that is, that even a piece of soft butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth. In Pendennis Thackeray used the expres- sion with reference to a girl who “smiles and languishes,” but today it isn’t usually employed in the sense of suspiciously amiable. In fact, the phrase once had a longer form: “She looks like butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth, but cheese won’t choke her,” i.e., she’s really not fastidious at all, but in fact rather earthy.

词汇	butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth
词源	butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth. Men have been saying this about demure women since the early 16th century; in fact, Heywood listed it as a proverb in 1536: the lady so prim and proper, so cold, that is, that even a piece of soft butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth. In Pendennis Thackeray used the expres- sion with reference to a girl who “smiles and languishes,” but today it isn’t usually employed in the sense of suspiciously amiable. In fact, the phrase once had a longer form: “She looks like butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth, but cheese won’t choke her,” i.e., she’s really not fastidious at all, but in fact rather earthy.
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