in clover

English

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in clover

  1. In a condition of prosperity.
    • 1854, Charles Dickens, “chapter 26”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, [], →OCLC:
      [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 August 16, James R. Gaines, “From the Managing Editor”, in Time:
      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."
  2. Happy and contented.
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