lap of luxury, the
the lap of luxury
A luxurious and comfortable lifestyle due to one's abundant money and resources. After winning the lottery, they moved to Paris so they could live in the lap of luxury. The fact that he grew up in the lap of luxury was used to discredit the candidate's claim of wanting to represent working-class citizens. Compared to life the village where he grew up, my grandfather said earning minimum wage and living in a one-bedroom apartment in New York felt like the lap of luxury to him.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
lap of luxury
Fig. a luxurious situation. I rather enjoy living in the lap of luxury. You call this pigpen the lap of luxury?
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
the lap of luxury
Conditions of great affluence or material comfort: an heiress living in the lap of luxury.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
lap of luxury, the
Affluent circumstances. This term, with its allusion to a traditional place of comfort and ease, the human lap, no doubt owes its popularity to its fluid alliteration. It dates from the late eighteenth century and appeared in print in 1802 in Maria Edgeworth’s Moral Tales.
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The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- lap of luxury
- the lap of luxury
- luxury
- lap of luxury, in the
- in the lap of luxury
- Living large
- live large
- live like a king
- hit the jackpot, to
- jackpot