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stop and smell the flowers

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English

Syllables
stop and s-mell the flow-ers
IPA
36
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
3
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Alternative form of stop and smell the roses.

Inflected Forms

stops and smells the flowers (present, singular) stopping and smelling the flowers (participle, present) stopped and smelled the flowers (participle, past) stopped and smelled the flowers (past) stopped and smelt the flowers (participle, past) stopped and smelt the flowers (past)

Questions

What does stop and smell the flowers mean?
Alternative form of stop and smell the roses.

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