After John
complained about his long, tiring day at work, his
father turned to him and said, "You didn't think your
new job in construction was going to be a bed of
roses, did you?"
La expresión a
bed of roses se remonta al siglo XIII. Actualmente
este idiom se utiliza sobre todo en sentido negativo
como en el dicho "life is not a bed of roses".
Idioms opuestos a
este serían a bed of nailsy a bed or thorns.