be in clover
Example Sentences
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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 Russell, Bertrand
Worcester sank into his chair with a sigh of satisfaction at sight of little Poulett; he was to be in clover, evidently.
From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Swainson, Frederick
You've come in good time, an' if Het will let you stay you'll be in clover the rest o' yore days.
From Dixie Hart by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)
It might have been thought that with this unexpected gain, Basset would be in clover.
From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John
