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Child in a candy store?

In short, the idiom “feeling like a child in a candy store” is an age-old old phrase, probably as candy shops themselves – imagine what it felt like for kids in those days when the first candy stores opened to business.

Anyways, “feeling like a child in a candy store” is so widely and frequently used that it now feels like a cliché, i.e. it sounds old and not at all fresh. But it is a vivid phrase to learn and put into use.

Put it into use, that is, in situations where you feel a lot of excitement, even bewilderment at what’s in store for you to explore. You’re being adventurous and are extremely happy.

Incidentally, I think the original phrase might be “a kid in a candy store” rather than a child. Come to think of it, I’ve come across “kid” in the phrase much more often than “child”. “Kid” being American English for a child, this phrase might indeed be American in origin.

That’s what I think. You?

Never mind. Here are media examples:

1. A chance phone call inspired Lee Woodruff, a contributor to CBS This Morning, to write her first novel. The author, with her journalist husband, Bob, had written the bestselling In an Instant, which chronicles the family’s path to recovery in the aftermath of Bob’s traumatic brain injury in Iraq. Since then, Lee has become the go-to person for brain injury information, which is why a friend called about an accident in which a 17-year-old drove a car into a young child riding his bike. The child subsequently recovered from a brain injury. “What struck me was the randomness of the act,” Woodruff tells Show Daily. “That one ‘in an instant’ moment is probably why it hit home, because my moment was when I picked up the phone and got the news about Bob. And as a mother I wound up thinking, ‘God, this could have so easily happened to my 17-year-old son.’ And look at all of those lives that were affected by that one moment.”