live happily ever after

live happily ever after
live happily ever after
Cliché to live in happiness after a specific event. (A formulaic phrase at the end of fairy tales.) •

The prince and the princess lived happily ever after.

They went away from the horrible haunted castle and lived happily ever after.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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