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smell the roses

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.89 in modern English

Syllables
smell the ros-es
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Alternative form of stop and smell the roses.

Inflected Forms

smells the roses (present, singular) smelling the roses (participle, present) smelled the roses (participle, past) smelled the roses (past) smelt the roses (participle, past) smelt the roses (past)

Questions

What does smell the roses mean?
Alternative form of stop and smell the roses.

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