primrose path
报春花路,月光大道,月光曲径,月光小径
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- : a way of life devoted to irresponsible hedonism, often of a sensual nature: The evangelist exhorted us to avoid the primrose path and stick to the straight and narrow.
- : a course of action that is easy or tempting but hazardous: the primrose path to insolvency.
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We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.
The anti-crime cops began searching the likely path of flight.
Senhor José remains stationary, but this lengthy series of clauses propels the reader along an unmarked path.
The flight path remained close to the Indonesian archipelago, well within what is the normal reach of air traffic control radar.
My trip takes the reverse path, and I begin by assessing the depth of my Shakespeare knowledge in his birthplace.
"But I can't stop to argue about it now;" and, saying this, he turned into a side path, and disappeared in the wood.
I presume this path does not extend many miles without meeting impediments.
She had been walking alone with her arms hanging limp, letting her white skirts trail along the dewy path.
Suddenly his quick eye lit on something in the gravel path and his heart gave a great leap.
Squinty went this way and that through the woods, but he could not find the path that led to his pen.