on easy street
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see easy street.
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A condition of financial security and comfort, as in If he actually makes partner, he will be on easy street. [Colloquial; c. 1900] Also see fat city.
Example Sentences
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McConaughey tires of livin on easy street: “I needed some yellow lights.”
From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2020
He has been up and down, endured boom and bust, gone from livin on easy street to trailer parks.
From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2020
It didn’t exactly put him on easy street.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018
They’re not something that’s going to put a family on easy street.
From Salon • Dec. 10, 2013
Their first duty, as they saw it, was to make all the money they could as fast as they could, and to put themselves and those dependent upon them on easy street.
From The Coming of Coal by Bruere, Robert W.
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