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take the primrose path
vs
wallow in the mire
take the primrose path
wallow in the mire
verb
To revel in baseness or scandal.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wallow, mire.
How often have the words
take the primrose path
and
wallow in the mire
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)