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 might make some arrangement with her, I am sure; and, if so, the little fellow would be in clover.

From Sisters by Cambridge, Ada

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)

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 Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)

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)