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Path Primrose Word Prim Rohz Noun Easy Life Devoted

The primrose path represents an easy life focused on pleasure or a path of least resistance that leads to disaster.

The primrose path represents an easy life focused on pleasure or a path of least resistance that leads to disaster.

Front primrose path \PRIM-rohz path\
Back noun
1. An easy life, especially devoted to sensual pleasure.
2. A path of least resistance, especially one that ends in disaster.

[From Latin prima rosa (first rose). Earliest documented use: 1604. It's not clear why "primrose" was picked for naming this metaphorical path. Perhaps Shakespeare chose the word for alliteration -- the word is first attested in his Hamlet]

"Meanwhile, Katich clung on; the primrose path is not for him. The road is strewn with rocks."

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