life is a bowl of cherries

life is (just) a bowl of cherries

proverb Life is wonderful or very pleasant. I got a promotion and got engaged in the span of a week! Life is just a bowl of cherries these days!
See also: bowl, cherry, life, of
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

life is a bowl of cherries

If you say that life is a bowl of cherries, you mean that life is full of pleasure and enjoyment. To him, life was a bowl of cherries. Life's not exactly a bowl of cherries when you're an international champ.
See also: bowl, cherry, life, of
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
See also:
  • bowl of cherries, life is just a
  • life is (just) a bowl of cherries
  • Life is just a bowl of cherries
  • Life is short and time is swift
  • life is short(, and time is swift)
  • such is life
  • Such is life!
  • cannot for the life of me/him/her/us/them
  • can't for the life of me
  • life
References in periodicals archive
ACCORDING to two different proverbs "Life is not all beer and skittles" and "Life is a bowl of cherries".
THOUGHT for the DAY
Although Erma Bombeck was just free years younger than Kerr, her career peaked, in the 70s with such dismally titled bestsellers as The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank; If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?; I Lost-Everything in the Post-Natal Depression.
Giving mirth: for todays women writers, balancing work and family is agony. For Jean Kerr, it was an art form