A bed of roses
This phrase describes a comfortable, pleasant, easy or happy situation.
“John wants to live in a bed of roses without hard work.”
“Being self-employed in Central Europe is not a bed of roses.”
Origin
The idiom probably originated in France. The lover in a French poem called “Le Roman De La Rose” dreams of finding a garden with a bed of roses. In English it was first used in the poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” written by Christopher Marlowe in 1599.
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