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
The firm was at once as busy as a bee-hive, on "easy street" again, as the expression went, "in clover."
From Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser
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