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Definition of take time to smell the roses

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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

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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