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

Origin: popularized after Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, iii

See primrose path in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A way of life of worldly ease or pleasure.
  2. A course of action that seems easy and appropriate but can actually end in calamity.

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