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    origin of phrase "garden trip"

    Hi! My name is Marjorie Simmins. I am an author, currently working on a book on Somebeachsomewhere, which will be published in May 2021, by Nimbus Publishing. Here's my question: I know what the expression "garden trip" means (or "garden spot," both meaning ideal circumstances, such as the two-hole, for the horse that is racing), but I don't know how it originated. Can anyone give me more details? Thank you!! https://nimbus.ca/store/somebeachsom...se-stable.html

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    I have moved this post here for Marjorie as people may not have seen it on the Canada Board
    I cannot help with the origin as I have not heard of 'Garden Trip' but it seems to mean the same thing as a Good Trip
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    Based on the meaning already mentioned, it may be a derivation of the old phrase, 'Primrose path', which means the pleasant route through life, of pleasure and dissipation.

    The origin of the phrase 'Primrose path', was was coined by Shakespeare, in Hamlet, 1602. It is evidently a simple allusion to a path strewn with flowers.

    Ophelia:
    I shall the effect of this good lesson keep,
    As watchman to my heart. 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.


    Here Ophelia is warning her brother take his own advice and not reject the difficult and arduous path of righteousness that leads to Heaven in favour of the easy path of sin.

    Shakespeare later used 'the primrose way', which has the same meaning, in Macbeth. This variant is hardly ever used now.

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    You could be onto something there Steve, thanks on behalf of Marjorie
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    Hi, Steve Jones - Thank you so much! If this isn't the answer, it should be - beautiful! I really appreciate you taking the time to answer the question for me.

    With thanks,
    Marjorie Simmins

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