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
I'm going to be in clover for the rest of my days.
From A Poached Peerage by William Magnay
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 John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson
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 Will N. (William Nathaniel) Harben
We might make some arrangement with her, I am sure; and, if so, the little fellow would be in clover.
From Sisters by Ada Cambridge
