live happily ever after

live 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 to keep a relationship healthy!
See also: after, ever, happily, live
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

live happily ever after

Cliché to live in happiness after a specific event. (A formulaic phrase at the end of fairy tales.) The prince and the princess lived happily ever after. They went away from the horrible haunted castle and lived happily ever after.
See also: after, ever, happily, live
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

live happily ever after

Spend the rest of one's life in happiness, as in In her romantic novels the hero and heroine end up marrying and then live happily ever after . This hyperbolic phrase ends many fairy tales. [Mid-1800s]
See also: after, ever, happily, live
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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
But will Sheldon, Leonard and their friends get to live happily ever after? Walk the Line Sky Cinema True Stories, 10pm Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny Cash in this gripping biopic about the country music star.
What would blow your mind is the one eye-opening flaw in our mindsets that the girl points out - we love speaking out about how we should be more accepting of our original selves, instead of dunking our heads into tubs of fairness creams; yet we bring up our children telling them fairy tales about beautiful, gorgeous princesses who always end up with a prince charming and live happily ever after. We wouldn't bother telling them stories of a girl who might not be fair-skinned, but is still strong and accomplished, and definitely finds happiness.
Nevertheless, after he hands himself into the police, she thinks there still could be a way for them to live happily ever after, and springs him from jail.
THE idea that couples can live happily ever after is "bonkers", according to Hollywood star Emma Thompson.
The cast of sitcom Edge of Heaven EDGE OF HEAVEN (ITV, Friday, 9pm) SET in a Margate B&B, the sitcom focuses on Alfie, who knows exactly what he wants and has his entire life mapped out - he's going to marry his fiancee Carly and live happily ever after.
"If Diana couldn't go off and have a new life, why should Charles be allowed to live happily ever after? "
As much as we hope Tom and Katie will live happily ever after, you can't help but feel that this one might not have a happy ending.
It is not a fairy tale with the prince and princess riding off on a white horse to live happily ever after.
But with so many stylish pairs hitting stores, you can now sport shorts anywhere and live happily ever after.
Despite the crimes Robin and Brooklyn commit, this is a love story that has you rooting for them to live happily ever after.
WHEN WILL THAT BOY LEARN THAT IT TAKES PM TO LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER?
Swan Lake's ending has been changed so often over time--most notably by the Soviets who arranged to have Siegfried kill von Rothbart so the lovers could live happily ever after (they didn't believe in an afterlife)--that it remains fair game for anyone staging the ballet.
She's perfectly at liberty to surrender to his mighty anything because they are destined by the stroke of a pen - or tap of a key - to live 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.
As long as the senior is using the property as their primary residence, he/she can live happily ever after. This, by the way, is not a fairy tale.