单词 | moonlight and roses |
释义 | > as lemmasmoonlight and roses d. allusively. moonlight and roses: a situation, atmosphere, etc., characterized by sentimentality or romance. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > used allusively of romantic atmosphere moonlight and roses1935 1925 B. Black & N. Moret (title of song) Moonlight and roses.] 1935 C. Odets Awake & Sing! iii. 111 Come away. A certain place where it's moonlight and roses. We'll lay down, count stars... You lay under the trees. Champagne flows. 1942 Amer. Speech 17 58 The moonlight-and-roses kind of Civil War play. 1959 Encounter Apr. 79/1 In Look Homeward Angel we have the romanticised figure of Laura James, the moonlight-and-roses woven about her. 1984 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 376 Moonlight and roses, champagne on ice. < as lemmas |
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