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live high off the hog
have the best of everything, live in great comfort My mother and father have been living high off the hog since they won the lottery.
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v. phr. To eat or live well or elegantly.
For the first few days after the check arrived, they ate high on the hog. Compare: IN CLOVER or IN THE CLOVER, ON EASY STREET.
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live high on the hog. Prosper, live luxuriously, as in
When Aunt Ida dies and they inherit her estate, they'll be eating high off the hog, or
Since their loan was approved, they've been living high on the hog. It alludes to the choicest cuts of meat, which are found on a pig's upper flanks. [Late 1800s]
high off the hog
Ostentatiously. The byword refers to the affluent actuality able to allow the choicest cut of meat, which, from a pig, is college up on the animal. They've been active aerial off the hog anytime back David won the lottery. It charge be a shock for them accepting to calculation their pennies like this—they're acclimated to bistro aerial off the hog, afterwards all.Learn more: high, hog, off
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