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Mr. Tom Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

Wake up and smell the roses...

Hi

I checked two sites for the expression "wake up and smell the roses". I don't think they mean the same -- I mean, one is advising about taking life easy; the other one tells otherwise. (That's how I understood the explanations.)

What do you think?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wake%20up%20and%20smell%20the%20coffee/roses

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wake+up+and+smell+the+roses

Thanks,

Tom
  

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Never, never, never rely on the Urban Dictionary. Never.
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The usual BrE phrase is wake up and smell the coffee and the meaning is that found in the Merriam-Webster dictionary (=realize what is really happenning). But I found there's also 'stop and smell the roses' with the other meaning (the one from the urban dictionary).

This leads me to believe that the phrase in question is possibly a hybrid derived from the other two expressio
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