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

Flora has written to the woman of the lodgings she always has, and will lend them the maid she sends with little Margaret; so they will be in clover.'

From The Trial by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

I fancied I’d be in clover at Krindlesyke, With you and all: but, sink me, if I haven’t Just stuck my silly head into a bee-bike!

From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson

I'm going to be in clover for the rest of my days.

From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William

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 Dickens, Charles