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waking up and smelling the roses

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.32 in modern English

Syllables
wak-ing up and s-melling the ros-es
IPA
44
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
4
Syllables
17
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of wake up and smell the roses

Questions

What does waking up and smelling the roses mean?
present participle and gerund of wake up and smell the roses

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