the belle of the ball

noun phrase

old-fashioned

: the most beautiful and popular woman at a dance, party, etc.

She was the belle of the ball.

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Wearing her finest fairy-godmother-from–Shrek 2 gown, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher was the belle of the ball at this year’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, and this GlamBOT shows it. —

Tom Smyth, Vulture, 12 Mar. 2024 This lovely layer cake will be the belle of the ball at any spring soiree. —

Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2024 Picacho Peak State Park Looking like a giant stone sail, the distinctive profile of Picacho Peak was the belle of the ball during the 2023 superbloom. —

Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 24 Feb. 2024 So for the upcoming sequel to their Oscar-winning 2019 supervillain film Joker, director Todd Phillips and star Joaquin Phoenix have recruited none other than Lady Gaga to be the belle of the ball. —

Ew Staff, EW.com, 5 Jan. 2024 Kris Jenner was the belle of the ball at the Kardashian-Jenner Christmas Eve party! —

Sabienna Bowman, Peoplemag, 26 Dec. 2023 Amal Clooney was the belle of the ball at the second annual Albie Awards in New York City. —

Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2023 Through the first two rounds of the 2023 NFL draft, the Big Ten was the belle of the ball. —

Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2023

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