bed of roses
- idiom
- Informal
:
vida de ensueño
- I will digress momentarily here to explain that my life has not been a bed of roses.
Life, as Rocky Balboa said, it's, it's not a, it's not a bed of roses.
- Life, as Rocky Balboa said, it's, it's not a, it's not a bed of roses.
- Nobody, anyone who would want to transition thinking it's going to be a bed of roses is wrong.
Examples
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After losing his job, he realized that life is not always a bed of roses.
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Life was a bed of roses!
Fiction book (1996) -
But it was no bed of roses.
Blog text (21) -
Many people assume that fame comes easily, but it is not a bed of roses.
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She often tells her friends that raising children is not a bed of roses.
Synonyms
16
2.7
An easy time with no problems
1
6.9
A friendly, peaceful situation with no open arguments
A situation where someone has an easy, comfortable life with few worries or responsibilities
A comfortable life with good luck and little effort
Antonyms
How Easy
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
The idiom bed of roses may come from the image of a bed covered with soft petals from roses, a picture of comfort and pleasure, so it came to mean 'easy' or 'comfortable'.