on easy street

1. see easy street.

2. 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

The joke is that Victoria has no clue that her long run on Easy Street is about to hit a dead end.

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“And now, instead of taking care of that child, you want to kill that child so your life can go on being on easy street and you can keep running to the club every Friday night.”

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The pair founded the animal sanctuary Wildlife on Easy Street in Tampa, which is now called Big Cat Rescue.

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It marked a “U-turn on Easy Street,” as strategists at BofA Global Research described it.

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"It's a hard life on easy street / Just white painted picket fences far as you can see / If you think we live in the land of the free / You should try to be black like me."

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