| 单词 | to come up roses |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto come up roses P7. In plural, in various phrases expressing favourable circumstances, ease, success, etc., as roses, (roses,) all the way, not all roses, everything's roses, to come up roses. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > prosperous conditions fatnessc1000 milk and honeyOE plentyc1330 sunshine1584 felicities1625 rose1832 sunlight1864 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > physical comfort > be comfortable or easy [verb (intransitive)] to come up roses1959 1629 H. Burton Truth's Triumph 285 The passage from earth to heauen is not strowed with roses.] 1832 East India Sketch-book I. 182 ‘Life is not all roses!’ sighed Wilmer, as he finished the last letter. 1855 R. Browning Patriot i, in Men & Women I. 191 It was roses, roses, all the way. 1899 W. E. Norris Giles Ingilby vi ‘[Entertaining] is not all roses, you see’, the girl remarked. 1917 S. McKenna Sonia v. 253 We weren't in sight of an audit, I'd got months to doctor the entries, it was roses all the way. 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock vii. i. 283 ‘Sometimes he's bad to me. Oh, I can tell you,’ she urged, ‘it's not all roses.’ 1948 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Dynamite vi. 84 I should have thought you would be so glad to get back from a ghastly country like Brazil that life would have been roses, roses all the way. 1959 Daily Rec. (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 9 May 4/4 Wait'll you hear Ethel Merman wham across ‘Everything Is Coming Up Roses’ in her new show ‘Gypsy’. 1976 C. Weston Rouse Demon (1977) xviii. 89 This kid's from a good solid home. Parents are okay. Everything's roses. 1977 Time 7 Feb. 59/1 Aired over eight consecutive nights, Roots came up roses for ABC. 2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Personal Finance Q. Review) 22/5 However, it is not all roses. The old banking diehards face big challenges. < as lemmas |
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