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like a kid in a sweet shop
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very excited because you are surrounded by things you love
American English says 'a kid in a candy store'. The people who feel this way are adults as well as children.
In context
My little brother was like a kid in a sweet shop at the Tet market.
Give a book lover a big bookshop and she is like a kid in a sweet shop.
More idioms about food
- a bad appleone bad person who has a bad effect on the rest of a group
- a couch potatoa person who spends a lot of time sitting and watching TV instead of being active
- a different kettle of fisha completely different situation from the one just mentioned
- a finger in every pieinvolved in many different activities, often to get power
- a meal ticketa person or thing that someone uses as a source of money or support