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primrose path definition

primrose path

  1. the path of pleasure, self-indulgence, etc.
  2. a course of action that is deceptively easy, proper, etc. but that can lead to disaster

Etymology: popularized after Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, iii

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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