leave someone's shell(Yet you may not have a frigging clue afterwards, what Street Photography is about... Because you have to leave your shell. Intense)
come out smelling like a rose(Sometimes everything you touch turns to shit and other times you swim in a lake of shit and come out smelling like a rose. VLZ_58)
come out of something smelling of roses(By reporting his colleagues as soon as he learned of their dishonest business practices, the CEO came out smelling of roses.Anglophile)