a rose by any other name would smell as sweet

Meaning

1. what is important is what people or things are, not what they are called

In the movies · 1

• I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I was never able to believe it.Anne of Green Gables1985

From the same entry

• be coming up roses
• put roses in cheeks
• a bed of roses
• come up of smelling of roses
• get a rise out of
• give rise to
• rise and shine
• gorge rises
• make hackles rise
• draw yourself up to your full height
• rise above
• rise to

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• so far so good
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• no pain no gain
• better late than never
• enough is enough
• an eye for an eye
• birds of a feather