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cherrypicker (hockey)

a player who waits at center ice for a pass Our coach told us about the cherrypicker on the other team.

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life is just a bowl of cherries

life is just wonderful, life is grand "When Anne is happy, she says, ""Life is just a bowl of cherries!"""

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red herring

a false issue, make a mountain... "She said, ""Fluoride is a red herring. It's not important."""

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cherry

1. virginity as in to lose one's cherry. Previously applied to the hymen but now the term is used by both sexes. One is also able to lose one's anal cherry. See "pop someone's cherry"
2. cool, hip, good: "Damn, that car is cherry!"

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pop someone's cherry

to lose or take someone's sexual virginity. Orig. applied to deflowering (a woman)

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Cherry pick

If people cherry pick, they choose things that support their position, while ignoring things that contradict it.

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bed of roses|bed|bowl|bowl of cherries|cherry|rose

n. phr. A pleasant easy place, job, or position; an easy life. A coal miner's job is not a bed of roses. After nine months of school, summer camp seemed a bowl of cherries.
Compare: IN CLOVER, LIFE OF RILEY.

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cherry farm|cherry|farm

n., slang A correctional institution of minimal security where the inmates, mostly first offenders, work as farmhands. Joe got a light sentence and was sent to a cherry farm for six months.

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red herring|herring|red

n. phr. A false scent laid down in order to deceive; a phony or misleading story designed to cause confusion. That story about the president having an affair was a red herring created by the opposition in order to discredit him.

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bowl of cherries, life is just a

bowl of cherries, life is just a
These are happy circumstances; life is wonderful. This phrase is often used ironically, as in My husband is about to get laid off—life is just a bowl of cherries, right? Originating as the title of a song (1931) by Lew Brown (lyrics) and composer Ray Henderson, this term expressed the idea that everything was going very well. However, its ironical use was established by the 1970s. Also see bed of roses.

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herring

herring
see dead as a doornail; red herring.