be in clover
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Recalls Jerry Cazin, 77, who has owned the Cazin & Houtz hardware store in Evanston for 51 years: "People thought they were going to be in clover all their lives."
From Time Magazine Archive
With those and the kit you've got here you'll be in clover.
From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
When the season is over Won't we be in clover, With the gold in our pockets We got from heath-broom.
From In Wicklow and West Kerry by J. M. (John Millington) Synge
If you’d worked that deal through, time of the drouth in seventy-four, we’d be in clover and no Careyville and no Aydelots in the way.
From Winning the Wilderness by J. N. Marchand
Without the one, man, being a gregarious animal, cannot subsist: while without the other he would simply be in clover.
From Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell
