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

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)

We went to sleep, therefore, with the comfortable assurance that everything would turn out well for us on the morrow, when we should be in clover if appearances were to be trusted.

From The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)

You've come in good time, an' if Het will let you stay you'll be in clover the rest o' yore days.

From Dixie Hart by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)

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