单词 | come up roses |
释义 | come up rosesTurn out extremely well, as in I had my doubts about this project, but now it's coming up roses. [Slang; c. 1960] come up smelling like roses. Emerge untarnished from a difficult situation, have no stain on one's character, as in He was suspended for a month but still came up smelling like roses. Eric Partridge believed this usage originally was fall into shit and come up smelling like roses, but the vulgar initial phrase is now generally omitted. [Slang; first half of 1900s] Words nearby come up rosescome up, come up against, come up in the world, come upon, comeuppance, come up roses, come up to, come up with, come what may, come with the territory, COMEX The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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