| 释义 |
live off (or on) the fat of the landHave the best of everything: landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land...- I wished that I was her, and that I had naturally curly hair and that I was an artist, living off the fat of the land, as it were, because it seemed totally alien to me that your family would ever support your own artistic inclinations.
- Check the long lines at stands operated by nocturnal vendors, men literally living off the fat of the land, for clear indication of how many people confront-on a nightly basis-the outlawed practice of eating far too near bedtime.
- It could be said that he lives off the fat of the land.
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