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Meanings of as soft as butter in English

As soft as butter; very soft.

Usage of as soft as butter in English
1
The frost had gone, and the lying snow was as soft as butter.
Greenmantle
2
His voice was as soft as butter and never rose above a whisper.
Geomancer (Well of Echoes)
3
They learned that from Ilan-mygenes are as soft as butter, she thinks.
To the end of the land
4
When our Obstinate was in love he was as sweet as honey and as soft as butter.
Bunyan Characters (1st Series)
5
His eyes strayed over her face, picking out all its beauties, and he felt himself growing as soft as butter.
Maurice Guest
6
While Europe found most of the other continents as soft as butter to her trenchant blade, she met her match in Asia.
The Age of the Reformation
7
They were as soft as butter to the touch, and she looked at them to stop herself from staring at the woman.
Changeless
8
Hopewell Drugg is as soft as butter; mebbe he loved 'Cinda Stone; anyhow he merried her after he'd got the mitten from Amarilla.
Janice Day at Poketown
9
"They looks as soft as butter, and they're as sly as foxes, and as quick, as quick-asquick as greased lightning, my lady."
The Eustace Diamonds