happily ever after

happily ever after

This phrase borrowed from fairy tale endings is used to suggest that everything will work out perfectly in the future. It is often used after a couple has gotten married. It was such a beautiful wedding, and I just know that Allie and Michael will live happily ever after. It's not like real people just magically live happily ever after—it takes a lot of hard work!
See also: after, ever, happily
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • eggs is eggs
  • a cold day in Hell
  • come in
  • come in a certain position
  • come on in
  • best foot forward
  • (one's) best foot forward
  • damn well
  • enlist in
  • enlist in (something)
References in periodicals archive
Author Stephanie Perkins is back with another YA hit, Isla and the Happily Ever After.
Why should we lie to children who will find out later the truth that there is never a "happily ever after"?
The fairy tale is the "hook." I trust they learn that marriage to a prince or princess is only one option in a world where they hope to live happily ever after.
Tacked on was a useful but false fairy-tale ending in which Little Elian lives happily ever after. But his story has not really ended at all.
Happily Ever After is the product of the Confetti Entertainment Co., owned by Donna Brown Guillaume, her husband, actor Robert Guillaume; Two Oceans Entertainment Group, an independent television production company; and a third partner, Jack Lazard.
Jessica Griffin, ask the "Happily Ever After" couples to rate (https://www.ibtimes.com/these-married-first-sight-couples-are-still-together-october-2018-2727236) their marriages now , and Bobby and Danielle are still feeling like a perfect 10.
The story is inspired by the Dutch children's book King and King, which tells the story of two princes who fall in love and live happily ever after.
Happily Ever After? takes the idea of a traditional musical about relationships and turns it on its head.
Happily Ever After, Harriet Evans, pounds 12.99, HarperCollins At 22, Eleanor Bee is sure about three things - she wants to move to London and be a literary superstar, she wants to be able to afford to buy a coffee and croissant every morning and she doesn't believe in happy endings.
'In the end we all still want to settle down and live happily ever after. And that's fine.
She wanted to believe in "happily ever after," and "forever," but the breakup of her parents' marriage has soured her belief in commitment.
Fredmann carried the story a step further and enacted "and they lived happily ever after." There was a formal, lavishly produced wedding followed by the ballet's final scene, which could be termed a "honeymoon dance," a pas de deux by Cinderella and the Prince.
And to the ladies, you will not regret the day you said yes, because it's the start of your grand happily ever after,'' she says.
Lead singer Neil Hannon, from Co Fermanagh, described it as "about meeting your soul mate and living happily ever after and then what comes after happily ever after.
This book shows you that when there are ups and downs along the way to happily ever after, sometimes you just have to be creative and have a sense of humor.