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wake up and smell the roses

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English

Syllables
wake up and s-mell the ros-es
IPA
37
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
3
Syllables
15
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Synonym of wake up and smell the coffee.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

wakes up and smells the roses (present, singular) waking up and smelling the roses (participle, present) woke up and smelled the roses (past) woke up and smelt the roses (past) woken up and smelled the roses (participle, past) woken up and smelt the roses (participle, past)

Synonyms

wake up and smell the coffee

Questions

What does wake up and smell the roses mean?
Synonym of wake up and smell the coffee.

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