come up of smelling of roses

釋義

1. come up / out of sth smelling of roses

   雖捲入…而好名聲依舊；事後於名譽無損

   to still have a good reputation, even though you have been involved in sth that might have given people a bad opinion of you

同一詞條的短語

• smell a rat
• a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
• wake up and smell the coffee
• smell out
• the sweet smell of success