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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--chocolate-box This week's theme: desserts used metaphorically. chocolate-box (CHO-kuh-lit boks, CHOK-lit -) adjective Having a romanticized beautiful image; stereotypically pretty. [From the kind of pictures often seen on boxes of chocolate.] -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "But to accept that is merely to endorse a patronising, chocolate-box image of the country -- to see it all as pretty lanes, thatched cottages and rosy-cheeked lasses milking cows -- and to turn a blind eye to the reality of rural life today." Anna Morrell; An Everyday Tale of Randy Rural Folk; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales); Nov 9 2006. X-Bonus They have a right to censure, that have a heart to help: The rest is cruelty, not justice. -William Penn, Quaker, founder of Pennsylvania (1644-1718)

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