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come out smelling of roses

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English

Syllables
come out s-melling of ros-es
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
3
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Alternative form of smell like a rose.

Inflected Forms

comes out smelling of roses (present, singular) coming out smelling of roses (participle, present) came out smelling of roses (past)

Questions

What does come out smelling of roses mean?
Alternative form of smell like a rose.

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