like a dream

idiom

: very pleasingly or well

The new car drives like a dream.

My new computer works like a dream.

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This classic recipe freezes like a dream and wows every time. —

Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2025 Watching the numbers climb in real time felt like a dream. —

Lydia T. Blanco, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024 In the 1930s and ’40s, Kraft began marketing Velveeta successfully, if rather dubiously, as a health food and diet aid, and its low price and convenience—beloved by kids, shelf-stable, melts like a dream—charmed America’s homemakers throughout the suburban ’60s and beyond. —

David Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024 Available in two mauve-toned shades, this radiance-boosting formula blends like a dream to provide a second-skin finish while a cocktail of raspberry leaf stem cell extract and vitamin E enhances your complexion's natural dewiness. —

Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 28 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for like a dream

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