Stolen pleasures are sweetest.

Stolen pleasures are sweetest.
Stolen fruit is sweetest. & Stolen pleasures are sweetest.
Prov. People often enjoy illicit things just because they are illicit. •

To judge from the number of his extramarital affairs, John must believe that stolen pleasures are sweetest.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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