roses, roses all the way—said of comfort, favorable circumstances, success, etc.:
- I should have thought you would be so glad to get back from Brazil that life would have been roses, roses all the way.
Cf.: not all roses —(of a situation, job, etc.) there are unpleasant things to deal with as well as the pleasant ones:
- Wait, don’t you want to read my review first? It’s not all roses you know!
roses round the door—usually said of marital or rural domestic happiness:
- “Roses round the door and all that,” as Norman used to say when Letty’s retirement plans were mentioned.
See also: come up roses / come up smelling of roses.