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1919 Kansas City (Missouri) Times 28 Nov. 13/1 ‘Dese days I'se eatin' furder up on de hog!’ ‘We're all eating too high up on the hog,’ Mr. Clyne concluded.

1940 Chicago Defender 26 Oct. 10/5 On the other hand, you'll see other Negroes living ‘high on the hog’, sporting new expensive automobiles, sporty clothing and all that sort of thing.

1946 San Francisco Call-Bull. 27 May Edit. page I have to do my shopping in the black market because we can't eat as high off the hog as Roosevelt and Ickes and Joe Davis and all those millionaire friends of the common man.

1952 Pampa (Texas) Daily News 8 Feb. 6/1 Snarls are being heard that some branches of our military establishment, are nibbling too high up on the hog.

1956 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 17 Feb. (Editorial page) A half starved republican eating low on the hog.

1967 K. Giles Death in Diamonds iii. 47 I hope these Uppings eat high on the hog.

1970 Times 4 June 10/5 Compared to a Congressman, an M.P. lives lower on the hog, campaigns more quietly and takes fewer lavish junkets.

2008 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 1 Oct. a20 As the economy contracts, we Americans are likely to find that we have been living too high on the hog.