bowl of cherries

noun

An enjoyable experience.

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Meanings

nounbowl of cherries (plural bowls of cherries)

plural bowls of cherries

  1. idiomaticinformalAn enjoyable experience.

    She did not believe that life was a bowl of cherries, and she never had.

    2002, Michael Malone, Red Clay, Blue Cadillac: Stories of Twelve Southern Women, page 94
    2 more examples

    Life is just a just a bowl of cherries / Don't take it serious, it's too mysterious / You work, you save, you worry so / But you can't take it with you when you / go, go, go. / Oh, life is just a bowl of cherries / so live and laugh at it all.

    1931, Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries

    Della thought it meant that you just get your bowl of cherries in life and that's your lot and you eat them one by one and then you die.

    2001, Amy Jenkins, Honeymoon, page 160

    Synonyms: peaches and cream, beatitude, bliss, delectation, delight, ecstasy, euphoria, lust

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAn enjoyable experience.

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peaches and creambeatitudeblissdelectationdelightecstasyeuphorialustnirvanapleasureraptureravishmenttransport
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bed of rosesbeer and skittlespeaches and cream
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