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IDIOMS To be "lead down the Primrose Path " is a common Idiom suggesting that one is being deceived or lead astray, often into living an easy life that is full of pleasure, but bad for them. An early appearance of the phrase in print occurs in Shakespeare 's 1602 play Hamlet , where Ophelia , rebuffing her brother Laertes ' insistence that she resist Hamlet's advances, accuses Laertes of hypocrisy: "Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede." The phrase also appears in Macbeth , where the porter speaks of "treading the primrose path to the everlasting bonfire." Variations of the phrase are also common: "primrose way" and "primrose lane." THE FILM ''Primrose Path'' is a 1940 film with Marjorie Rambeau . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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