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

It's a pleasant spot; and a man with coals and candles and a pound a week might be in clover here.'

From Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles

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.

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)

Then these young scamps will be in clover.

From The Red Derelict by Mitford, Bertram