Citations:unicorn vomit

Noun: "(slang, idiomatic, humorous) something extremely colorful, sweet, or cloying"

 * 2010, Nicole Finkbiner, "By Any Other Name", Philadelphia Weekly, 15 December - 21 December 2010, page 35:
 * By "a splash," they mean a measly 15 percent alcohol per volume–but to be fair, it's silly to expect to get tanked on a liquid that looks like unicorn vomit.
 * 2011, Haley Massara, "The etiquette of cake", Granite Bay Gazette (Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay, California), 8 April 2011, page A10:
 * I envy how obviously homemade it is, and how the 12 pounds of sprinkles dumped on top of it make it look like a tray of unicorn vomit.
 * 2013, Bridget Fahey Hodder, "Amsterdam: Filthy And Beautiful", UniLife Magazine, April - July 2013, page 56:
 * There was an outside kitchen with a small bar fridge, oven, barbecue and speakers set up, and next to that, a large caravan had been painted in rainbows that Graham could only describe as "unicorn vomit".
 * 2014, Tawni Waters, Beauty and the Broken, unnumbered page:
 * "Well, it's awesome," I say, thinking "awesome" is a generous word for a scarf that resembles unicorn vomit.
 * 2015, Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers, page 69:
 * "Because you don't let me go deeper than that. You don't let me write anything but pretty stories that make people feel like they're tromping through unicorn vomit while holding baskets of cupcakes in their arms."
 * 2015, Jonathan Kurtz, "Glass Mosaics", Ivy Leaves Journal of Literature & Art, Volume 90 (2015), page 42:
 * He gazed down at the coffee table, where Sarah's mosaic coasters rested in a pile. The earlier ones had only a few colors; one was all black, like a slice of obsidian, and another was a soothing assortment of blue and purple. In one, she'd even managed to approximate a lily. However, the further into the timeline Robert got, the more disorganized and ugly they became, with clashing colors and nonsensical patterns.
 * He picked up the newest one, the one covered in unicorn vomit,
 * 2016, Hannah Pederson, "Hair, there, everywhere: Why shave?", The Puyallup Post, 8 November 2016, page 9:
 * The products aren't made to last either, which forces women to set aside a significant amount of money just to waste on an uncomfortable plastic razor that'll be dead in a month and shaving cream that smells like unicorn vomit and leaves their skin feeling tight and uncomfortable.
 * 2017, Tessa Dare, The Duchess Deal: Girl Meets Duke, unnumbered page:
 * "That gown," he said, "is fit for a bawdy-house chandelier."
 * "Well, your intended had...extravagant preferences."
 * He leaned forward in his chair. "I can't take the whole thing in. It looks like unicorn vomit. Or the pelt of some snow beast rumored to meance the Himalayas."
 * 2017, Pier Angelo, "The Sin Of Pride", South Florida Gay News, 14 October 2015, page 31:
 * Here come the round of eye-rolls, but I will say it: Gay Pride is a tired, outdated, boring embarrassment that's outlasted its usefulness or relevance. It's like drowning in a sea of unicorn vomit, engulfed in an air of false nostalgia, of a past not so remote that someone is trying to contraband as history.
 * Here come the round of eye-rolls, but I will say it: Gay Pride is a tired, outdated, boring embarrassment that's outlasted its usefulness or relevance. It's like drowning in a sea of unicorn vomit, engulfed in an air of false nostalgia, of a past not so remote that someone is trying to contraband as history.