English Dictionary

primrose path

noun

An easy and pleasant life; a self-indulgent or hedonistic life; such a life that leads to damnation. / A deceptively easy or appealing course of action that leads one astray or into error.

She led him down the primrose path with promises of wealth and luxury.

意味（1）

An easy and pleasant life; a self-indulgent or hedonistic life; such a life that leads to damnation.

But, good my brother, / 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.

意味（2）

A deceptively easy or appealing course of action that leads one astray or into error.

The route from the desire for rationality via the desire for objectivity to descriptivism is a well trodden one; but it is nevertheless a primrose path; for, as we shall see, it leads those who follow it into one or another form of relativism, which is precisely what these thinkers are trying to avoid. They can only avoid it by retracing their steps.

The route from the desire for rationality via the desire for objectivity to descriptivism is a well trodden one; but it is nevertheless a primrose path; for, as we shall see, it leads those who follow it into one or another form of relativism, which is precisely what these thinkers are trying to avoid. They can only avoid it by retracing their steps. This primrose path starts from the assumption that the only way to achieve rationality is to secure objectivity.

意味（3）

(euphemistic) The life of prostitution.

Even if these purely official catastrophes carried any conviction, the majority of English girls remain so poor, so dependent, so well aware that the drudgeries of such honest work as is within their reach are likely enough to lead them eventually to lung disease, premature death, and domestic desertion or brutality, that they would still see reason to prefer the primrose path to the strait path of virtue, since both, vice at worst and virtue at best, lead to the same end in poverty and overwork.