Meaning of guns and roses | Babel Free

Definitions

The glamour of love, war, and adventure, as opposed to mundane reality.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“A whaler's life isn't all guns and roses, however, so Melville and a shipmate jumped ship at the Marquesas Islands.”

“But the story is not all guns and roses. Many of these foreign fighters die in the combat zone or end up moving on to fight in other foreign conflicts. Significant percentages simply cannot endure the training or become disillusioned once they come to realize that the harsh realities of waging a bloody jihad are far less glamorous than they seemed from afar.”

“'You're all guns and roses, mate,' was one off-hand comment on one of my crime thrillers where romance blossoms between two people trying to stop terrorists blowing up Heathrow Airport. In my erotic romances, I take time to discover the lives of the people involved before the action starts.”

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