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

After they are out of power, your own friends, like Tassara, Zuroaga, and the rest of them, may be in office, and you will be in clover.

From Ahead of the Army by Emerson, C. Chase

If you’d worked that deal through, time of the drouth in seventy-four, we’d be in clover and no Careyville and no Aydelots in the way.

From Winning the Wilderness by Marchand, J. N.

With those and the kit you've got here you'll be in clover.

From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)

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