in clover, to be/live
in clover, to be/live
To prosper. This expression, with its analogy to cattle feeding happily in a field of clover, dates from the early eighteenth century. It occasionally has been put like pigs in clover, and, in twentieth-century America, rolling in clover. All of them mean “to live well.”
See also: live
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- like a pig in clover
- like pigs in clover
- run with the hare, hunt with the hounds, to
- ladies'/lady's man
- all in the/a day's work
- in clover
- last-ditch defense/effort
- no spring chicken, (she's)
- really and truly
- wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole