The young man laughed harshly. "You stay out here a little while, an’ if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 20. This is an example of Steinbeck’s use of verbal irony. Floyd Knowles is being sarcastic when he says this to Tom when the Joads arrive at the Hooverville tent camp near Bakersfield. What he actually means is that conditions are poor and it’s no bed of roses for migrants looking for work in California.