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bowl of cherries

bowl of cherries noun: an enjoyable experience.

Noun

bowl of cherries (plural bowls of cherries)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) An enjoyable experience.
    • 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 of bowl of cherries

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Forms of bowl of cherries

pluralbowls of cherries

Questions about bowl of cherries

What does bowl of cherries mean?
Bowl of cherries means an enjoyable experience.
What part of speech is bowl of cherries?
Bowl of cherries is a noun.
What is the plural of bowl of cherries?
The plural of bowl of cherries is bowls of cherries.

Words near bowl of cherries in the dictionary

  1. bowl haircuts
  2. bowl hat
  3. bowl hats
  4. bowl lute
  5. bowl lutes
  6. bowl of cherries
  7. bowl out
  8. bowl over
  9. bowl pack
  10. bowl packs
  11. bowl saver

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