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Beauty is only skin deep
- Physical beauty is superficial and is not as important as a person's intellectual, emotional, and spiritual qualities.
Idioms and Phrases
External attractiveness has no relation to goodness or essential quality. This maxim was first stated by Sir Thomas Overbury in his poem 鈥淎 Wife鈥 (1613): 鈥淎ll the carnall beauty of my wife is but skin-deep.鈥Example Sentences
It鈥檚 hard to grow up being told beauty is only skin deep, only to see it valued above nearly all else.
In 鈥淏eauty Is Only Skin Deep,鈥 what seems to be an embracing Black couple provides one of the show鈥檚 most peaceful, romantic moments.
What she needs to learn is that true beauty is only skin deep.
鈥淏eauty is only skin deep,鈥 Parker said, 鈥渂ut ugly goes clean to the bone.鈥
In a larger sense, however, the A-lister has previously revealed that she thinks beauty is only skin deep.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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