primrose path

Meaning

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.
• The life of prostitution.

Origin

• in "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark," act 1, scene 3:
• : Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads