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Idiom

bowl of cherries

Meaning

An enjoyable experience.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“Life is not always a bowl of cherries.”

“Running a small business is hard work, and it is certainly not a bowl of cherries.”

“While he had expected his new life abroad to be a bowl of cherries, he soon found that every country presents its own unique set of challenges.”

Examples

simple

“Life is not always a bowl of cherries.”

contextual

“Running a small business is hard work, and it is certainly not a bowl of cherries.”

complex

“While he had expected his new life abroad to be a bowl of cherries, he soon found that every country presents its own unique set of challenges.”

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