Meaning of gather rosebuds | Babel Free

Definitions

To enjoy life's immediate pleasures; to behave in a relaxed, carefree manner.

idiomatic

Examples

“Pottleby: I like to see young people enjoying their youth—gathering rosebuds.”

“Gather rosebuds, Gráinne, gather rosebuds. Look at your moths and butterflies and think of possibilities, think of love, Gráinne, think of open spaces and freedom and love.”

“But the sun shines on me still, and like any other poet I am gathering rosebuds while I may, for the glory of flowers too soon is past and summer hath too short a lease.”

“. . . Or the poets who have kept turning out exhortations to seize the day and gather rosebuds.”

““Fleet Foxes” meandered and gathered rosebuds and killed time, but it also announced the arrival of a significant young songwriter.”

CEFR level