smell like a rose
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "come out smelling like a rose"
- ""I don't suppose anyone from the director down will come out of this deal smelling like a rose," the warden commented, "but our only hope is that some good will result from the hearing.""
- "But compared to others, Dent came out of the Depression "smelling like a rose." He later boasted that he made $18,000 a year with his writing during the Depression."
- "The champion of corporate governance should smell like a rose. Instead, there's an unpleasant whiff of pork-barrel politics rising from the board."
Usage
Inflected Forms
smells like a rose (present, singular)
smelling like a rose (participle, present)
smelt like a rose (participle, past)
smelt like a rose (past)
smelled like a rose (participle, past)
smelled like a rose (past)
come out smelling like a rose (alternative)
come out smelling of roses (alternative)
come up smelling like a rose (alternative)
come up smelling of roses (alternative)