to be living in the lap of luxury

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• in the lap of luxury — In luxurious conditions • • • Main Entry: ↑lap * * * in the lap of luxury phrase in very comfortable and expensive conditions They live together in the lap of luxury in a beautiful Victorian mansion. Thesaurus: richsynonym …   Useful english dictionary

• in the lap of luxury — living in comfort, living high on the hog    If I win the lottery, we ll be rich. We ll live in the lap of luxury …   English idioms

• lap of luxury — n. a luxurious situation. □ I ather enjoy living in the lap of luxury. □ You call this pigpen the lap of luxury? …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• luxury — noun 1 comfort and pleasure ADJECTIVE ▪ great, pure, sheer ▪ It was sheer luxury to step into a hot bath. ▪ ultimate ▪ the ultimate luxury of a sauna in your own home …   Collocations dictionary

• lap — lap1 [læp] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1 2 3 4¦(part of journey)¦ 5 in the lap of luxury 6 in the lap of the gods ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Sense: 1, 4 5; Origin: Old English lAppa] [Sense: 2 3; Date: 1800 1900; …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• lap of luxury — Synonyms and related words: Easy Street, affluence, bed of roses, clover, comfort, ease, easy circumstances, felicity, fleshpots, gracious life, gracious living, happiness, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury, prosperity, prosperousness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• lap — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. fold, wrap; lick; overlap; ripple. See superiority, covering, drinking, touch. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The body from the waist to the knees when sitting] Syn. knees, legs, thighs, front, seat. 2. [The… …   English dictionary for students

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• luxury — Synonyms and related words: Babylonian splendor, Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, Easy Street, affluence, amenity, amusement, animal pleasure, appeal, appealingness, appetite, appetitiveness, attractiveness, bed of roses, bedizenment, bewitchment …   Moby Thesaurus

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