hearts and flowers

After the song Hearts and Flowers, published in 1893 and widely used as melodramatic photoplay music.

• "And I'm not saying it's all hearts and flowers, but where's the passion? Where's the need to be near that other person so much that you get so distracted you can't think of anything else?"
• "When that attention is one sided or become^([sic]) lacking, you can't expect everything to be wonderful and all hearts and flowers in the home or the bedroom."