in clover
English
Alternative forms
- like a bee in clover, like a pig in clover, like pigs in clover, rolling in clover
Prepositional phrase
in clover
- In a condition of prosperity.
- 1854, Charles Dickens, “chapter 26”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], OCLC 4389957:
- [S]he resigned herself with noble fortitude to lodging, as one may say, in clover, and feeding on the fat of the land.
- 1899, Truth (volume 45, page 1053)
- A young man belonging to a good London club, having an allowance of £150 a year, and earning £300 a year by driving a taxameter cab, would be in clover.
- 1993, James R. Gaines, "From the Managing Editor," Time, 16 Aug.:
- They tell Sasha, "There is big money here. You and the kids can get real decent money and live in clover the rest of your lives."
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- Happy and contented.
- 1875, Anthony Trollope, chapter 55, in The Way We Live Now, London: Chapman and Hall, […]:
- Shelter at Carbury Manor was very much more comfortable than the priest's own establishment, even with the roof on, and Father Barham was in clover.
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