"Sugar and spice and everything nice" nghĩa là gì?

"Sugar and spice and everything nice" = đường, gia vị và mọi điều tốt đẹp -> nghĩa là người nữ dịu dàng và tử tế. Có lẽ bắt nguồn từ bài đồng dao thế kỷ 19 có tên "What Are Little Boys Made of?".

Ví dụ

"Sixteen-year-old Nina isn't made of sugar and spice and everything nice. She is flesh and blood and desire, but she longs to know real love.

Carlson’s raging rhapsody (bài ngâm khoa trương cường điệu) relegated the historic role of women as neatly packed in a box with soft, silk wrapping and tied with a pretty, pink bow: For Display Only. That perception is, and always has been, a fairy tale. In truth, sugar and spice and everything nice is simply icing on the cake of undaunted and unafraid, and everything that’s staid.

In “Sugar and Snails” by Sarah Tsiang, a grandfather mentions the old rhyme that states that boys are made of “ships and snails and puppy dog tails” and girls are made of “sugar and spice and everything nice,” then continues the rhyme with his own words. His grandchildren both protest — the boy says that he, too, is sweet, and the girl insists that she doesn’t wear dresses. The grandfather continues making up new rhymes to fit the children’s lists of things they do and do not like, and eventually gives up trying to categorize them.

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