know when you are well off
If you do not know when you are well off, you do not understand that your present situation is good compared with other people's or with what it might be like:
She's always complaining about her car - she doesn't know when she's well off (= she's lucky to have a car even if it's bad)!
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Aware
- abreast
- acquainted
- alive
- alive to sth idiom
- au fait
- awake
- awakening
- be no stranger to sth idiom
- familiar
- genned up
- have/keep your finger on the pulse idiom
- informed
- insider
- ivory tower
- onto
- privy
- put sb in the picture idiom
- repository
- sad
- sadder but wiser idiom
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