| 单词 | like pigs in clover |
| 释义 | like pigs in cloverExtremely contentedly, as in They had a handsome pension and lived like pigs in clover. This expression alludes to pigs being allowed to eat as much clover, a favorite food, as they wish. It appeared in the Boston Gazette of January 7, 1813: “Canadians! then in droves come over, And live henceforth like pigs in clover.” [Early 1800s] Words nearby like pigs in cloverlike-minded, liken, likeness, like nobody's business, like nothing on earth, like pigs in clover, like pulling teeth, like rolling off a log, like shooting fish in a barrel, like something the cat dragged in, like that The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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