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Would you rather sleep on a
bed of nails or a bed or roses?
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These are two idioms with opposite meanings.
A bed of nails is a very difficult situation.
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And a bed of roses is an easy,
wonderful, very pleasant situation.
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Let's come up with some sample sentences.
"Last year, my friend got a divorce and lost
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her job. What a bed of nails."
"Don't you just wish
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life would be a bed of roses?"
Sometimes is trickier than I wish it would be."
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We often use the bed of roses
in the negative. For example,
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"Well my day has been no bed of roses either.
I got a flat tire and I didn't have a spare."
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