Wiktionary
n. 1 An easy and pleasant life; a self-indulgent or hedonistic life; such a life that leads to damnation. 2 A deceptively easy or appealing course of action that leads one astray or into error. 3 The life of prostitution.
WordNet
n. a life of ease and pleasure
Wikipedia
Primrose Path or The Primrose Path may refer to:
- Primrose path, a term used for a life of ease and leisure
- Primrose Path (film), a 1940 film
- The Primrose Path (film), a 1934 film
- The Primrose Path (Stoker novel), an 1875 novel by Bram Stoker
- The Primrose Path (Matas novel), a 1995 novel by Carol Matas
- "The Primrose Path", a short story by D.H. Lawrence, published in England, My England and Other Stories
- The Primrose Path, a 2013 album by Jonathan Bree
Primrose Path is a 1940 film about a young woman determined not to follow the profession of her mother and grandmother, prostitution. It stars Ginger Rogers and Joel McCrea. The film was based on the play of the same name by Robert L. Buckner and Walter Hart and the novel February Hill by Victoria Lincoln (uncredited for legal reasons).
Marjorie Rambeau was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Usage examples of "primrose path".
But that his Madga had confessed to him, in Bohunk, that she'd been led down the primrose path by a slicker with a badge who'd implied they'd all wind up back in that empire they never wanted to see again if she didn't surrender her reluctant ass to him.
One of the reasons why he disliked Schmidt was that he blamed the old boy for luring me from the primrose path that led to the cottage door and the little frilly aprons and the houseful of babies.
In the first place, Paaaeua had a charge of souls: these were young men, and he judged it right to withhold them from the primrose path.
In short, what led you down the primrose path to the writer's life?
They showed you the pictures of the dead and the wounded in the war and they told you that was where too much progress too fast led you, right down the fabled primrose path to the kind of damage atevi and humans could do each other now that atevi and humans had much more advanced weapons —.