Murder
Murder noun - A situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness.
Roses
Roses noun - Something easily done or dealt with.
Usage example: the job isn't all roses, but it is pretty interesting
Both words in one sentence
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In the 1989 Tim Burton Batman film, Bruce Wayne regularly deposits a pair of roses at the site of his parents' murder.
Source: Grave Marking Scene - Leon doesn't come out of this smelling like roses either, as he picked up Sayaka's framejob from there, even though wrongly accusing Naegi of murder meant that everyone but Leon would be killed.
Source: Asshole Victim / Visual Novels -
A CSI: Miami episode had a couple engaged in a highly publicized War Of The Roses-esque conflict become the suspects in a murder.
Source: Divorce Assets Conflict
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