bed of roses
- noun
- /bɛd əv ˈroʊzɪz/
:
parterre de rosas
- She glide-walked along the path until a final turn revealed the house set in the middle of the cavern, surrounded by still more trees and carefully planted beds of roses, irises, and peonies.
Examples
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Every summer, she spends hours tending to her bed of roses to ensure they bloom beautifully.
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The garden featured a beautiful bed of roses that added vibrant colors to the landscape.
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In the center of the garden, there was a large bed of roses with different varieties of blooms.
Synonyms
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A plot of ground where flowers or other plants grow
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A part of a garden where people plant flowers
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A piece of ground in a garden for growing flowers
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An area of ground in a garden where people plant and grow flowers
A part of a garden where rose bushes grow
Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'bed' and 'roses' evoke a pleasant, comfortable image, so a B1 learner who knows the words could guess a non-literal, positive sense (something attractive or comfortable). However, the conventional meaning 'a life or situation free from difficulties' is a metaphorical extension and not fully predictable from the literal parts, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Bed of roses originally meant a garden bed planted with roses, so it simply named a patch of rose bushes.