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Definition of take time to smell the roses
take time to smell the roses
verb
- to take the time to enjoy life.
If you're going to drive cross-country, you should take time to smell the roses. Stop at some interesting places along the way.
- See more words with the same meaning: to hang out, relax.
Last edited on May 11 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 03 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'to hang out, relax': | |
| Definitions include: to engage in a mindless activity, especially watching television. | |
| Definitions include: to hang out somewhere. | |
| Definitions include: to not take something seriously. | |
| Definitions include: very good, excellent; "cool". | |
| Definitions include: to pretend, to feign. | |
| Definitions include: to get along well in a relationship. | |
| Definitions include: to be standing or sitting somewhere. | |
| Definitions include: to relax; "hang out". | |
| Definitions include: to sit around waiting for something to happen. | |
| Definitions include: to calm down. | |
| Definitions include: to stop being angry. | |
| Definitions include: to have, to take. | |
| Definitions include: to be unproductive. | |
| Definitions include: to relax. | |
| Definitions include: very good, excellent, interesting, fun, etc. | |
Slang terms with the same root words
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Other terms relating to 'rose': | |
| Definitions include: of a woman, menstrual period | |
| Definitions include: "The answer to your question is obviously 'yes'." | |
| Definitions include: tea (the drink.) | |
| Definitions include: A girl from the south who is as smart as she is beautiful usually a brunette with green eyes who is a ride or die. [ compare with southern belle] | |
| Definitions include: metaphorical glasses which give one an overly optimistic perspective. | |
| Definitions include: a person from Yorkshire. | |
Other terms relating to 'smell': | |
| Definitions include: something that indicates poor choices made elsewhere in a code base. | |
| Definitions include: an expression of empathy or simple understanding. | |
| Definitions include: that you understand them. | |
| Definitions include: to understand. | |
| Definitions include: to detect that something is not what it seems. | |
| Definitions include: Used when seeing or detecting the presence of a cop nearby. | |
| Definitions include: "See (one) later", i.e. "Goodbye". | |
| Definitions include: Refers to the smell of an unclean woman's vagina, from wear and tear due to sex or activity. | |
| Definitions include: to be legitimate, trustworthy, moral, etc. | |
| Definitions include: Smells like teen Smear it | |
| Definitions include: to detect that something is amiss. | |
| Definitions include: to acknowledge. | |
| Definitions include: a command/invitation to accept reality. | |
| Definitions include: a variant of "wake up and smell the coffee," which is a command/invitation to accept reality. | |
Other terms relating to 'take': | |
| Definitions include: "Chill, don't worry about it." | |
| Definitions include: a second look. | |
| Definitions include: compromise. | |
| Definitions include: "Both people involved in a bad situation are to be blamed." | |
| Definitions include: to beat severely, or defeat severely. | |
| Definitions include: taking bribes. | |
| Definitions include: the result of someone taking the piss. | |
| Definitions include: to rob or extort. | |
| Definitions include: to have to go take a shit. | |
| Definitions include: to mistreat. | |
| Definitions include: to get something to eat. | |
| Definitions include: to take a look. | |
| Definitions include: taking a chance on something. | |
| Definitions include: to defecate. | |
| Definitions include: he needs to relax. | |
Other terms relating to 'the': | |
| Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone. | |
| Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving. | |
| Definitions include: interrogation. | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: information. | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a good estimate. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: inclusive. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing. | |
| Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular. | |
| Definitions include: of a male, to urinate. | |
| Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them | |
| Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner. | |
Other terms relating to 'time': | |
| Definitions include: time to eat. | |
| Definitions include: in a grand way. | |
| Definitions include: an effect in visual media such as movies and video games in which playback is slowed or paused while the camera moves around a moving object such as a bullet. | |
| Definitions include: time spend in front of the TV sitting on one's butt and relaxing. | |
| Definitions include: a period of time during which optimum performance is critical for the successful outcome of a project, process, task, etc. | |
| Definitions include: to serve a sentence in jail or prison. | |
| Definitions include: to do something quickly. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "Estimated Time of Arrival." | |
| Definitions include: the potential of facilitating one's meeting of other people. | |
| Definitions include: physically near a time zone boundary, the later of the two times. | |
| Definitions include: to be over half an hour late to all gatherings. | |
| Definitions include: a decision that will be made close to the time of acting upon that decision. | |
| Definitions include: to pay attention to a person. | |
| Definitions include: excellent. | |
| Definitions include: Everything's good. | |
Other terms relating to 'to': | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: See nine to five. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority. | |
| Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio. | |
| Definitions include: to revisit one's past. | |
| Definitions include: to go back to the beginning. | |
| Definitions include: extreme; "all out". | |
| Definitions include: to be vastly superior. | |
| Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else. | |
| Definitions include: to be unintelligible. | |
| Definitions include: to do. | |
| Definitions include: more important things to deal with. | |
| Definitions include: to kill or destroy. | |
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