come up roses
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Turn out extremely well, as in I had my doubts about this project, but now it's coming up roses . [ Slang ; c. 1960]
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come up smelling like roses . Emerge untarnished from a difficult situation, have no stain on one's character, as in He was suspended for a month but still came up smelling like roses . Eric Partridge believed this usage originally was fall into shit and come up smelling like roses , but the vulgar initial phrase is now generally omitted. [ Slang ; first half of 1900s]
Example Sentences
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On the home front, realization came quickly to Jack Kennedy that not everything was going to come up roses.
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