wallow in

wallow in (something)

To indulge or languish in something to a great or excessive degree. The aristocrats of this country have wallowed in luxury for long enough! It will do you no good just sitting around the house wallowing in your own self-pity!
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

wallow (around) in something

to roll around in something. Pigs enjoy wallowing around in mud. They wallow in mud to keep cool.
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wallow in something

Fig. to experience an abundance of something. (Fig. on wallow (around) in something.) Roger and Wilma are just wallowing in money. Claire spent the entire day wallowing in self-pity. The villagers are all wallowing in superstition.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

wallow in

v.
1. To roll the body lazily or clumsily in some medium or substance: The pig wallowed in the mud.
2. To revel in some condition or behavior; take pleasure in some condition or behavior: The celebrity wallowed in his fame.
3. To be plentifully supplied: The heirs wallowed in money.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • wallow
  • wallow in (something)
  • go on a spree
  • twice over
  • go on a binge
  • up the yin-yang
  • give rein to
  • give rein to (someone or something)
  • get (one's) jollies
References in classic literature
In the town were some substantial windowless houses of stone scattered among a wilderness of thatched cabins; the streets were mere crooked alleys, and un- paved; troops of dogs and nude children played in the sun and made life and noise; hogs roamed and rooted contentedly about, and one of them lay in a reeking wallow in the middle of the main thoroughfare and suckled her family.
Connecticut Yankee
To speak critically, indeed, the latter rather carried the thing to excess, and seemed to make it a point to wallow in the miriest part of the sty, and otherwise to outdo the original swine in their own natural vocation.
Tanglewood Tales
Listen to Bowie's 'Letter,' take a dive with the 'Spirits,' wallow in lazy, hazy 'Feelings''This one is called 'I'm Not Quite,'' David Bowie introduces the track.
Listen to Bowie's 'Letter,' take a dive with the 'Spirits,' wallow in lazy, hazy 'Feelings'
"The way I see it, I can either wallow in self pity or just get on and do something about it.
Cancer warrior spreading awareness
No wallow in the past WHY do critics so often condemn a new play?
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He told the Newstalk radio breakfast show: "I think this is a great country, we are great people but we wallow in self-pity far too much and wallow in mediocrity.
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"We wallow in loneliness and solitude our whole lives in search of the answer to hundreds and millions of questions that run through my mind.
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Byline: After more than half a century in Hollywood, Jane Fonda refuses to wallow in typical celebrity fluff.
Lifetime Achievement award for Jane Fonda
For these people to wallow in self-pity is ridiculous.
La causa
The girls will wallow in luxury at the hotel in the I centre of picturesque Baden - Baden, just a short walk from the town's designer shops.
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The sky turns dark, unleashing droplets of oil, and the soldiers wallow in a slippery bog of crude-soaked dunes.
Marines on the big screen
They lie on a slatted floor, wallow in urine, eat less, and grow less as well.
Fatter pigs due to cooling
In its opening moments Black Tuesday, an insidious suite arranged to songs from the Great Depression, suggests we're in for a wallow in nostalgic kitsch.
On Lisa Viola: a personal view
Some countries wallow in high-calorie diets, at the risk of their health, while others flounder, their people wondering when, of if, the next meal might arrive.
Land of plenty
Check "em if you get a chance or wallow in pitiable misery, you jerk.
Notes: from the underground