Idiom
bed of roses
Meaning
A pleasant or easy situation; an untroubled existence.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Life isn't always a bed of roses.”
“She thought marriage would be a bed of roses, but it took a lot of work.”
“He had grown up believing that success was a bed of roses, only to discover that every achievement demanded its own measure of sacrifice.”
Examples
simple
“Life isn't always a bed of roses.”
contextual
“She thought marriage would be a bed of roses, but it took a lot of work.”
complex
“He had grown up believing that success was a bed of roses, only to discover that every achievement demanded its own measure of sacrifice.”
Origin
From Christopher Marlowe's poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (1599).
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