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
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 Charles Dickens
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 Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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 J. N. Marchand
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 J. M. (John Millington) Synge
