Citations:sweet summer child

Noun: "(often sarcastic) someone who is naive, or who has never experienced hardship"

 * 1996, George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, unnumbered page:
 * “Oh, my sweet summer child,” Old Nan said quietly, “what do you know of fear?"
 * 2013, Erin Caldwell, "Organic food isn't pretty", Kanata Kourier-Standard, 19 December 2013, page 39:
 * You think it's free of pesticides and herbicides and grown with love, you sweet summer child.
 * 2015, Christopher Castano, "Out Of Control", The Georgetown Voice (Georgetown University), 19 February 2015, page 10:
 * Don't think people have tried to put Mario games in order? Oh sweet summer child.
 * 2015, Mona Lott, "Cliterary Theory", The Oxford Student (Oxford University), 6 June 2015, page 16:
 * Oh my sweet summer child, how wrong you are.
 * 2015, Jessica Ji, "Everything You Wanted to Know About Clubs at Princeton", The Princeton Tiger (Princeton University), 15 September 2015, page 7:
 * Bless your pure untainted heart, my sweet summer child.
 * 2015, Catherine Holland, "Spooky Halloween Music", The Spark (The University of Reading), 23 October 2015, page 33:
 * If you don't know the original, the internet has many treasures. Go seek them out, my sweet summer child.
 * 2017, Summer Heacock, The Awkward Path to Getting Lucky, unnumbered page:
 * “You sweet summer child,” Butter says, shaking her head. “So, Kat, you do that, and then you'll know!”
 * 2017, Daniel Walters, "It Works On Multiple Levels", Inlander, 15 June - 21 June 2017, page 29:
 * Maybe you're a wide-eyed naif, a sweet summer child, inexperienced in the warm-weather ways of the Inland Northwest.
 * 2017, "'Newlyweds' producer spills on Jessica Simpson", Metro (New York), 12 July 2017, page 16:
 * Nick said, 'It's in rigor mortis' and Jessica said, 'Riga-what?' I truly believe she didn't know what that meant." Oh, Jessica. You sweet summer child.
 * 2017, "Home Cooking Tips", Guide to UBC (2017), page 58:
 * Well sweet summer child, you're in for a treat... metaphorically.
 * 2017, Nomonde Mxhalisa, "How to feed our nation", Down2Earth, Issue 3 (2017), page 26:
 * I have my own, often complicated, relationship with food but I am, undeniably, a sweet summer child, born to plenty and warmth.
 * 2018, Jennifer L. Armentrout, Moonlight Sins, unnumbered page:
 * “My sweet summer child,” Anna said, and Julia frowned. “You don't need to know him to get down with him. That man is fine.
 * 2018, Nicola M. Cameron, To My Muse, unnumbered page:
 * I touched my purse where I'd stuck the hundred I'd taken out of the bank that morning. "What are we going to do with it?"
 * She muttered something under her breath about sweet summer children. "We're going to bribe one of the maids to let you in," she said slowly.
 * 2018, Caroline Jones, "Best Pizza Sauce", Washington City Paper, 13 April - 19 April 2018, page 16:
 * "But sauce goes beneath the toppings!" you exclaim. You sweet summer child. That's only true of lesser sauces that pizza makers hope will go unnoticed beneath layers of dairy and sausage.
 * 2018, Emma Chanen, "Winter Sweat", The Yale Herald (Yale University), 9 November 2018, page 9:
 * Well, sweet summer child, you've encountered one of the many perils of the colder months: the Winter Sweat.
 * 2019, Dee Dickens, Duct Tape and Daddy Issues: Phone-Sex Worker Tells All, unnumbered page:
 * "Starts?" I hear you cry, "How can it get any weirder than that?". Oh, my sweet summer children, what George wants me to do while he licks my feet clean is take pictures and humiliate him.
 * 2019, Belinda Messen, Lessons in Love, unnumbered page:
 * 'Anyway, time for me to play fairy godmother.' Penny tapped my shoulder with a ruler. 'Come, sweet summer child, let's go make some new friends.'
 * 2019, Jared Rasic, "Film Shorts", Source Weekly, 24 October 2019, page 34:
 * It can't be worse than "X-Men: The Last Stand," can it? Oh, sweet summer child. It can always get worse…especially in Hollywood.

poetic allusion of various meanings

 * 1849, James Staunton Babcock, "The West Wind", in Visions and Voices, page 153:
 * Thy home is all around,
 * Sweet summer child of light and air,
 * Like God's own presence, felt, ne'er found,
 * A Spirit everywhere!
 * 1850, Mary Scrimzeour Furman Whitaker, "The Prisoner", in Poems, page 52:
 * Blue was the summer air, and mild
 * The fragrant breeze, — sweet Summer's child.
 * All rob'd in white, dead Stanley seem'd,
 * And radiance, from his features, beam'd; —
 * Meta, companion of his way, —
 * Yet pale as when, on earth, he lay.
 * 1880, Frances Bennett McReynolds Brotherson, "Little May Tyng", in Poems, page 515:
 * God took her forever,
 * Our sweet summer child;
 * She passed through the valley
 * With Thee — Undefiled!
 * 1889, M. A. Macdonald, "Vine", in Poems, page 113:
 * Sweet Summer child,
 * Vine strong and wild,
 * Thou art the emblem to entwine
 * 1998, Christine Marion Fraser, Wild Is The Day, page 275:
 * Your eyes are as blue as the sea today, my sweet, sweet summer child.
 * 2015, Jade Scott, "Sweet Summer Child", in Carapace (Tampa Preparatory Arts School), page 9:
 * Sweet summer child
 * With locks of gold
 * and a bed of fresh grass