It is supposed to mean life is easy and good.
Ray Henderson wrote life is just a bowl of cherries. :)
Yes, the sentence "life is a bowl of cherries" is a metaphorical idiom. It is a metaphor comparing life to a bowl of cherries, suggesting that life is sweet and pleasant.
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"Life is just a bowl of cherries" is a popular idiom that at one point was made into a song. It simply means that life is good and everything is going great!
:) life doesn't always turn out how you planned <3
The bowl of cherries goes on the table.
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The collective nouns for cherries are:a cluster of cherriesa bowl of cherries
A Bowl of Cherries - 1961 was released on: France: 1961 Sweden: 1961 USA: 1961
Our next assignment is to paint a bowl of cherries.
While there may have been an earlier usage, the first time this expression became popular was back in 1931, when it was the title of a hit song, and was also in a Broadway musical. The meaning is that life is sweet and delightful, especially when you are in love.
It is a twist of the cliche "Life isn't a bowl of cherries". Decades ago, I saw an illustration, similar to that by Mary Engelbreit, but not identical (google it). A chair stacked precariously with bowls. Life is precarious, whereas, a bowl of cherries is bliss. I chanced to be searching for the illustration I remember, when I came upon this question. Why, yes. It is cherry season in Switzerland, and I'm about to make a pie.