Sweet as
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Excellent, acceptable, agreed or all right. Informal. Sweet-as with a hyphen may be used before a noun, while the unhyphenated phrase commonly stands alone. Regional use: New Zealand; also common in Australia and spreading more widely.
Origin
New Zealand English productively uses adjective plus as as an emphatic construction with no comparison stated: good as, cold as and sweet as can all be complete. Sweet as became a particularly recognisable late-20th-century formula. It is not necessary to supply an imagined missing object after as, and an exact individual coinage is not known.
Variants
- Sweet as, bro
- All sweet as
- Sweet-as
- Choice as
Usage Examples
- I can return the keys on Monday. Sweet as, no worries.
- The replacement part fits perfectly, so the repair is sweet as.
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