Bed Of Roses

Definition: Bed Of Roses

Bed Of Roses

Noun

1. A flower bed in which roses are growing.

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Literature

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Synonym: Bed Of Roses

Physical Pleasure

Noun: pleasure; physical pleasure, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure; bodily enjoyment, animal gratification, hedonism, sensuality; luxuriousness. Adjective: dissipation, round of pleasure, titillation, gusto, creature comforts, comfort, ease; pillow. (support); luxury, lap of luxury; purple and fine linen; bed of downs, bed of roses; velvet, clover; cup of Circe. (intemperance).

Adverb: in comfort. Noun: on a bed of roses. Noun: at one's ease.

Prosperity

Saturnia regna, Saturnian age; golden time, golden age; bed of roses, fat city; fat of the land, milk and honey, loaves and fishes.

I say, marriage with Max is not exactly a bed of roses, is it? (Rebecca; writing credit: Daphne Du Maurier; Philip MacDonald)

But it's been no bed of roses ("We Are the Champions/We Will Rock You"; performing artist: Queen)

Life is really a bed of roses. Others are just lucky to have friends to help them pick the thorns off. (references; author: unknown)

Bed of Roses (1933)

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Books

• A Bed of Roses (reference)

• Bed of Roses (reference)

• Bed of Roses (Second Chance at Love 240) (reference)

• Bed of Roses (Topaz Historical Romance, Je 519) (reference)

• Life in the Retirement Bed of Roses (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bed of Roses (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Comfort of a Bed of Roses. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "bed of roses": be on a bed of roses ♦ on a bed of roses. Additional references.

Bulgarian 

удоволствия (amenities, cakes and ale, sweets), розова леха. (various references)

Hungarian

rózsaágy (rosary), kellemes helyzet. (various references)

Pig Latin

edbay ofay osesray

Romanian

situaţie bunã. (various references)

Russian 

легкая жизнь (bed of flowers). (various references)

Spanish

estar en un lecho de rosas (be on a bed of roses). (various references)

Turkish

mutlu ve huzurlu ortam, güllük gülistanlık durum, güllük gülistanlık şey, gül tarhı (rose-bed), gül bahçesi (rosarium, rosary, rose garden, rose-bed, rosery). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: forebodes.

-2 letters: bedsores, forbodes, forebode, foredoes.

-3 letters: bedsore, desorbs, forbode, fordoes, sobered, sorbose.

-4 letters: before, bossed, bredes, breeds, broods, broses, defers, desorb, dobros, dosers, dosser, erodes, eroses, fessed, foredo, redoes, resods, rodeos, roofed, roosed, rooses, seders, sobers, sorbed.

-5 letters: beefs, beers, bodes, booed, boors, bored, bores, brede, breed, brees, brood, broos, brose, deers, defer, dobro.

+4 letters: forebodingness.