come up smelling like a rose
- come up smelling like a rose
come up smelling like a rose & come up smelling like roses
Fig. to end up looking good or respectable after being involved in some difficult or notorious affair. •
I was surprised that my congressional representative came up smelling like a rose after his colleagues investigated him.
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{v. phr.} To escape from a difficult situation or misdeed unscathed or without punishment. * /A is predicted that Congressman Brown, in spite of the current investigation into his financial affairs, will come up smelling like a rose at the end./
Dictionary of American idioms.
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come up smelling like a rose — {v. phr.} To escape from a difficult situation or misdeed unscathed or without punishment. * /A is predicted that Congressman Brown, in spite of the current investigation into his financial affairs, will come up smelling like a rose at the end./ … Dictionary of American idioms
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