The phrase "a roses" is not correct in written English.
It should be "a rose" if referring to a single flower, or "roses" without the article if referring to multiple flowers.
Example: "I bought a rose for my mother."
Alternatives: "one rose" or "roses".
"Everybody is a star" is a Roses mantra, and, at their best gigs, everybody is.
Yorkshire couldn't force a win at Trent Bridge, but they got the next best thing going into a Roses match with stakes even higher than usual.
Rating: 2 out of 5 Being a Roses fan for 20 plus years, I sat by the radio expecting the best.
What about Marl the monkey, he looks like a Roses fan! "Nah, he's just here to see me … and he hasn't heard of that band either".
It was the 19-year-old opener's second first-class century; a month later he doubled that tally against Yorkshire, becoming the first Lancashire batsman to score a ton in each innings of a Roses match.
Lancashire can rarely have gone into a Roses Match with a less heralded seam attack, but the combination of a Derbyshire reject with a couple of low-profile locals had Yorkshire rocking on a rain-affected second day.
On Ellen's Bosom Blushed A Rose.
Patrick Marber's tale of two men and two women, brought together by an escape from death, driven apart by the death of love, is not so much daisy chain as ring-a-ring-a-roses: it shows love as a fever and a plague spot.
He's usually afforded man-of-the-match status for this, but sadly there's an elephant in the room: Liverpool wouldn't have been three goals down if Kaka, Andrea Pirlo and Gino Gatusso hadn't played ring-a-ring-a-roses around him during the first half, as Gerrard played in his favoured position, the Central Midfield Role He Doesn't Have The Nous To Fill (also known colloquially as The Beckham).
The first printing of the rhyme was in Kate Greenaway's 1881 edition of Mother Goose; or, the Old Nursery Rhymes: Ring-a-ring-a-roses, A pocket full of posies; Ashes!
By Rebecca Fordham BENGHAZI, Libya, 25 May 2011 – Young boys are playing football in the yard and a group of girls are skipping to ring-a-roses in the far corner while their parents look on.
