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
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
It's a pleasant spot; and a man with coals and candles and a pound a week might be in clover here.'
From Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
After they are out of power, your own friends, like Tassara, Zuroaga, and the rest of them, may be in office, and you will be in clover.
From Ahead of the Army by C. Chase Emerson
We're certain to hit on a game trail sooner or later, and then we'll be in clover.
From Bert Wilson at Panama by J. W. Duffield
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