primrose path

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primrose path

1. A way of life of worldly ease or pleasure.

2. A course of action that seems easy and appropriate but can actually end in calamity.

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primrose path

the primrose path a pleasurable way of life

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prim′rose path′

1. a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism.

2. any irresponsible course of action.

[1595–1605]

primrose path

A life of pleasure and ease.

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primrose path - a life of ease and pleasure

path, way of life, way - a course of conduct; "the path of virtue"; "we went our separate ways"; "our paths in life led us apart"; "genius usually follows a revolutionary path"

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