| 单词 | roses round the door |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroses round the door roses round the door n. (allusively) domestic or marital happiness, esp. in a rural setting. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > [noun] > domestic happiness happy family1534 roses round the door1825 1825 R. Montgomery Poet. Trifles 118 Mine be a little moss-grown cot With clust'ring roses round the door; And sweetest flowers to scent the spot, With honey-suckles twining o'er. 1866 Macmillan's Mag. Mar. 443 Quiet Mary Forester, sitting by the shore, Rosy faces at your knee, roses round the door. 1934 L. Golding Five Silver Daughters xiii. 315 Talking about my mother and her pearls—it all sort of reminded me of the roses round the door. 1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn iv. 38 ‘Roses round the door and all that’, as Norman used to say when Letty's retirement plans were mentioned. 2006 Daily Star (Nexis) 7 Dec. What she truly wants is..marriage, babies and a cottage with roses round the door. < as lemmas |
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