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stop and smell the roses

stop and smell the roses verb: to relax; to take time out of one's busy schedule to enjoy or appreciate the beauty of life.

Verb

stop and smell the roses (third-person singular simple present stops and smells the roses, present participle stopping and smelling the roses, simple past and past participle stopped and smelled the roses or stopped and smelt the roses)

  1. (idiomatic) To relax; to take time out of one's busy schedule to enjoy or appreciate the beauty of life.

stop and smell the roses meaning in Bengali

stop and smell the roses in Bengali

বিশ্রাম নেওয়া

Forms of stop and smell the roses

third-person singular presentstops and smells the roses
present participlestopping and smelling the roses
past participlestopped and smelled the roses
paststopped and smelled the roses
past participlestopped and smelt the roses
paststopped and smelt the roses
alternative formsmell the roses
alternative formstop and smell the flowers
alternative formstop to smell the roses

Questions about stop and smell the roses

What does stop and smell the roses mean?
Stop and smell the roses means to relax; to take time out of one's busy schedule to enjoy or appreciate the beauty of life.
What is stop and smell the roses in Bengali?
Stop and smell the roses in Bengali is বিশ্রাম নেওয়া. See Stop and smell the roses meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is stop and smell the roses?
Stop and smell the roses is a verb.
What is the past tense of stop and smell the roses?
The past tense of stop and smell the roses is stopped and smelled the roses.

Words near stop and smell the roses in the dictionary

  1. stop and go light
  2. stop and go lights
  3. stop and run
  4. stop and search
  5. stop and smell the flowers
  6. stop and smell the roses
  7. stop at nothing
  8. stop bar
  9. stop bead
  10. stop beads
  11. stop board

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stop and smell the roses (page history and authors); stop and smell the roses (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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