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Thomas_Anderson Posted 18 years ago
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What is the meaning of 'wine and roses' and 'rolling landscape'?
"Darkness was falling over the ancient Grecian monastery and the first of the evening stars were beginning to twinkle in the cloudless Aegean sky. The sea was calm, the air was still and did indeed, as is so often claimed for it, smell of wine and roses. A yellow moon, almost full, had just cleared the horizon and bathed in its soft and benign light the softly rolling landscape and lent a magical quality to the otherwise rather harsh and forbidding outlines of the dark and brooding monastery which, any evidence to the contrary, slumbered on peacefully as it had done for countless centuries gone by."
This is from River Of Death by Alistair Maclean.
I am confused in two expressions
1- Wine and roses
What does it means?
In which situations we can use this expression?
2- rolling landscape
I googled about rolling landscape.
My idea is that rolling hills or rolling landscape means an area which has many small hills or many slopes.
Rolling landscape in the above excerpt means a land which is not flat or plain. It has many ups and downs.
Am I right?
This is from River Of Death by Alistair Maclean.
I am confused in two expressions
1- Wine and roses
What does it means?
In which situations we can use this expression?
2- rolling landscape
I googled about rolling landscape.
My idea is that rolling hills or rolling landscape means an area which has many small hills or many slopes.
Rolling landscape in the above excerpt means a land which is not flat or plain. It has many ups and downs.
Am I right?
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Hi, "Darkness was falling over the ancient Grecian monastery and the first of the evening stars were beginning to twinkle in the cloudless Aegean sky. The sea was calm, the air was still and did indeed, as is so often claimed for it, smell of wine and roses . " This is from River Of Death by Alistair Maclean .
- Hi, "Darkness was falling over the ancient Grecian monastery and the first of the evening stars were beginning to twinkle in the cloudless Aegean sky.
- The sea was calm, the air was still and did indeed, as is so often claimed for it, smell of wine and roses .
- " This is from River Of Death by Alistair Maclean .
- I am confused in two expressions 1- Wine and roses What does it means?
- Just take it literally in this context.
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Hi,
"Darkness was falling over the ancient Grecian monastery and the first of the evening stars were beginning to twinkle in the cloudless Aegean sky. The sea was calm, the air was still and did indeed, as is so often claimed for it, smell of wine and roses. A yellow moon, almost full, had just cleared the horizon and bathed in its soft and benign light the softly rolling landscape
"Darkness was falling over the ancient Grecian monastery and the first of the evening stars were beginning to twinkle in the cloudless Aegean sky. The sea was calm, the air was still and did indeed, as is so often claimed for it, smell of wine and roses. A yellow moon, almost full, had just cleared the horizon and bathed in its soft and benign light the softly rolling landscape
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Thanks Clive.
Your help is really appreciated.
Could you please give me the title and poet of the poem?
I can use it as a reference when I am explaining the above usage to someone.
Your help is really appreciated.
Could you please give me the title and poet of the poem?
I can use it as a reference when I am explaining the above usage to someone.
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Hi,
Most people know the phrase because it was used as the title of an outstanding Hollywood movie on the subject of alcoholism.
Details are here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days of_Wine_and_Roses(film)
The poet w
Most people know the phrase because it was used as the title of an outstanding Hollywood movie on the subject of alcoholism.
Details are here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days of_Wine_and_Roses(film)
The poet w
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Oh... I am not so sure about the hills, you know...
What I understand is that the rolling landscape refers to the calm sea, which is mentioned just before. As I picture things, the moon is just above the "calm sea", which it "bathes" in its rays, and as it casts a light one can see the "softly rolling" waves of the calm sea.
But then this is just my two cents, of course
What I understand is that the rolling landscape refers to the calm sea, which is mentioned just before. As I picture things, the moon is just above the "calm sea", which it "bathes" in its rays, and as it casts a light one can see the "softly rolling" waves of the calm sea.
But then this is just my two cents, of course
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The "rolling lanscape!" phrase can be confusing. Anything that is rolled is often flat therefore its easy to think a rolling lanscape is either flat or somewhat uninteresting.
Contrary to this a friend of mine once thought a rolling landscape meant it was rather hilly!!
I dislike the phrase myself. It seems something trotted out by a writer to mean something they can see but ca
Contrary to this a friend of mine once thought a rolling landscape meant it was rather hilly!!
I dislike the phrase myself. It seems something trotted out by a writer to mean something they can see but ca
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