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

Worcester sank into his chair with a sigh of satisfaction at sight of little Poulett; he was to be in clover, evidently.

From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Swainson, Frederick

Flora has written to the woman of the lodgings she always has, and will lend them the maid she sends with little Margaret; so they will be in clover.'

From The Trial by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

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

I fancied I’d be in clover at Krindlesyke, With you and all: but, sink me, if I haven’t Just stuck my silly head into a bee-bike!

From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson