"too sweet to be sour too nice to be mean" - where does this come from?
I came across this phrase:
“too sweet to be sour too nice to be mean”
I think it means if someone seems too nice then maybe they’re just faking it.
Is that correct?
Where does this phrase come from?
Have you ever heard anyone using it or is this sort of old-fashioned?
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Fluther- I just saw it a moment ago.
(Aside from that, check youtube and some of the music sites.)
Search on “Beastie Boys”.
Jazz and Awol that’s our team
Step inside the party disrupt the whole scene
When it comes to beats well I’m a fiend
I like my sugar with coffee and cream
Got to keep it going keep it going full steam
Too sweet to be sour too nice to be mean
On the tough guy style I’m not too keen
To try to change the world I will plot and scheme
Mario C likes to keep it clean
Gonna shine like a sunbeam
Keep on rapping cause that’s my dream
Got an A from Moe Dee for sticking to themes
When it comes to envy y’all is green
Jealous of the rhyme and the rhyme routine
Another dimension new galaxy
Intergalactic planetary
No, seriously, DarkScribe. You’re a literary type. You must know.
There’s a lot of results on Google but I can’t tell what the source is.
Julia Childs—I made that up.So sorry—;)
Only when i buy chinese food.
@DarkScribe Thanks! I was expecting a more classic reference.
Are there any other common English idioms to express someone being “too nice to be sincere”?
@elbowsquare _ Thanks! I was expecting a more classic reference.
It isn’t a “classic” term.
Are there any other common English idioms to express someone being “too nice to be sincere”?
Disingenuous, duplicitous, perfidious, mendacious, there are many words that describe insincerity – not many idiomatic terms.
There’s no idiomatic phrase referring to that sort of person or that sort of behavior. But such folks are known as people-pleasers; the sort of people who would rather be liked than be honest with themselves or others, and so they are “nice” when being truthful would be rather better in a situation or relationship. Others dislike them without knowing why, too, you ever notice that?
@DarkScribe – Now I have an urge to hear “I am known to do the Wop! (Wop!) Also known for the Flintstone Flop! (Flop!) Tammy D getting biz on the crop! Beastie Boys known to let the beat… drop!” Dammit. Off to YouTube. Laters!
Not quite accurate that there is no phase for this in English. It’s called being sacchariney sweet.
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