Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

come up smelling of roses

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.44 in modern English

Syllables
come up s-melling of ros-es
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
3
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Alternative form of smell like a rose.

Inflected Forms

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

Questions

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

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