smooth as a baby's bottom

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smooth as a baby's bottom (not comparable)

  1. (informal, simile) Extremely smooth.
    • 2000, Moosewood Collective, New Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant‎[1], Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 284:
      The texture has been described as being as soft and smooth as a baby's bottom
    • 1993, Peter Robinson, A Necessary End, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 316:
      His cheeks were as smooth as a baby's bottom, and he smelled good.
    • 2004, Stephanie H. Meyer with John Meyer, Teen Ink: Written in the Dirt--‎[2], HCI Teens, →ISBN, page 89:
      He'd sanded it for hours, "Until it was smooth as a baby's bottom," he'd said, and laughed his deep, throaty laugh.

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