An exclamation of commiseration with unkind connotations, used when something bad happens to someone. Originally coined due to the presence of flowers on the side of the road to mourn a roadside mortality.
Jack: "Someone broke into my house"
Jill: "Aaaah, flowers!"
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c.f. "How do you like them apples"
or
"Put that in your pipe and smoke it"
Aah, flowers...
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