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I doubt it. It’s a direct reference to the book. To be a sweet summer child in the book is to be naive about the winter that is eventually coming, since you’re too young to have ever lived through a winter before, and therefore have no idea or conception or experience of what the real world is actually like. For those who don’t know, summers and winters are exceptionally long in the fantasy world of Westeros, and if you were born at the beginning of summer, you could reach the age of 10 before ever knowing a winter.



It dates from the 1800s (and should have stayed there), but the show re-popularized it. https://www.yourdictionary.com/sweet-summer-child



This is a very common southern saying. The saying existed in The West Wind by James Staunton Babcock in 1849. It likely existed before that.


Thanks for the correction. I’m from California and never heard it before. Do you think the author of GOT was paying homage to the Southern usage for a reason?


It's just a fun way of saying naive.


I've lived in the south my whole life and have heard the phrase long before game of thrones...


Are you 26? The book was published in 1996. It could very well be an already existing expression, but I had never heard it before the book.


tell me you're a sheltered teenager without telling me


Dude, you kidding me? It was a saying long before the books existed. The saying is almost certainly older than George R. R. Martin himself.




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