in clover

1. Prosperous, living well. For example, After we make our first million, we'll be in clover. This expression alludes to cattle happily feeding on clover. Slightly different versions are like pigs in clover and rolling in clover. [c. 1700]

Example Sentences

As he crossed the stage at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to receive his award, Newman recited a poem he had composed for the occasion: “The secrets fell over/like a lover in clover/when I checked the government books/The blue zones are poor/the records no more/the 100-year-olds are all crooks.”

From Science Magazine

Early in Clover’s career, before she became a botanist, she worked at a segregated school for Mexican American students.

From Scientific American

In one shake of a lamb’s tail, the Della Rossas were living like pigs in clover.

From Seattle Times

Together, Ivy and Shilling made a place for Gran to lie in her favorite glade, where the ground was soft and covered in clover, and nearby ran a gentle river.

From Literature

Rembrandt van Rijn was famous, wealthy and generally in clover when he painted this majestic portrait that’s now at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif. It is, of course, a self-portrait — a painting of the “ugly and plebeian face by which he was ill-favored,” as one early Rembrandt chronicler, Filippo Baldinucci, rather brutally put it.

From Washington Post

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