smell the roses AmE informal

"The feeling was that kids need time when they can get out and smell the roses."

"We get a few days off to smell the roses."

And so long as you go through the show smelling the roses one at a time, it seems pretty good.

Got to take time out to smell the roses, huh?

Make hay while the sun Take time to smell the roses.

Mary smelled roses first and then saw the woman in the corner.

"It's time to smell the roses a little more than we have," he said.

Another person first smelled roses at the funeral of his mother.

By dawn the next day, most of them have decided to slow down and smell the roses.

I wanted time to smell the roses, and this was five minutes from my house.