come out smelling like a rose

Fig. to succeed; to do better than anyone else in some situation. Everyone else in the firm lost money in the real estate deal, but Bob came out smelling like a rose. If I can just finish my research paper on time, I'll come out smelling like a rose by the end of the school year.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Gautselin	-	Ancient Germanic
Crescens	-	Late Roman, Biblical Latin
Shikoba	-	Native American, Choctaw
Johanna	yo-HAH-nah (German), yo-HAHN-nah (Danish, Dutch), YO-hahn-nah (Finnish)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, English, Late Roman
MaËL	-	French, Breton
Saburo	sah-boo-ṙo:	Japanese