butter-won't-melt-in-his-mouth

Updated: September 17, 2025

When at Torquay he used to frequent a small church, in which the service was at that time performed by a very young curate of the extra gentle butter-won't-melt-in-his-mouth kind, who had much objection to the phrase in the Communion service, "eateth and drinketh his own damnation," and ventured somewhat tremblingly to substitute "condemnation" for the word which offended him.

Thomas Adolphus Trollope - What I Remember, Volume 2