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

We went to sleep, therefore, with the comfortable assurance that everything would turn out well for us on the morrow, when we should be in clover if appearances were to be trusted.

From The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)

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 Synge, J. M. (John Millington)

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

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 Marchand, J. N.