be in clover

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Recalls Jerry Cazin, 77, who has owned the Cazin & Houtz hardware store in Evanston for 51 years: "People thought they were going to be in clover all their lives."

From Time Magazine Archive

At any rate, we shall be in clover at Prahsu, and be able to get into condition again by the time we make another move.

From Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti by Paget, Walter

When the season is over Won't we be in clover, With the gold in our pockets We got from heath-broom.

From In Wicklow and West Kerry by Synge, J. M. (John Millington)

Without the one, man, being a gregarious animal, cannot subsist: while without the other he would simply be in clover.

From Proposed Roads to Freedom by Russell, Bertrand

We might make some arrangement with her, I am sure; and, if so, the little fellow would be in clover.

From Sisters by Cambridge, Ada