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.

live happily ever after

Spend the rest of one's life in happiness, as in In her romantic novels the hero and heroine end up marrying and then live happily ever after . This hyperbolic phrase ends many fairy tales. [Mid-1800s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Bryant	BRIE-ənt	English
Quanna	KWAH-nə	African American (Rare)
Joshua	['dʒɔʃwə]
Erik	E-rik (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German), E-reek (Finnish), AY-rik (Dutch), ER-ik (English)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Croatian, Hungarian, German, Dutch, Eng
Yuli	-	Russian
Hani	-	Arabic