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

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

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

It might have been thought that with this unexpected gain, Basset would be in clover.

From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John

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)