Idiom
sugar and spice
Meaning
Two things that are fundamentally different from each other.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My two cats are sugar and spice.”
“The two business partners are sugar and spice, yet they work together perfectly.”
“Although the two siblings share a home, their personalities are sugar and spice, leading to constant but affectionate disagreement.”
Examples
simple
“My two cats are sugar and spice.”
contextual
“The two business partners are sugar and spice, yet they work together perfectly.”
complex
“Although the two siblings share a home, their personalities are sugar and spice, leading to constant but affectionate disagreement.”
Origin
Perhaps from sugar and spice and everything nice in the nursery rhyme What Are Little Boys Made Of?.
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