come up of smelling of roses

释义

1. come up / out of sth smelling of roses

   虽卷入…而好名声依旧；事后于名誉无损

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

同一词条的短语

• 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