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lap of luxury
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | lap of luxury - in conditions of wealth and comfort; "he was raised in the lap of luxury"ease, comfort - a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state; "a life of luxury and ease"; "he had all the material comforts of this world" |
lap of luxury
the lap of luxuryA luxurious and comfortable lifestyle due to one's abundant money and resources. After winning the lottery, they moved to Paris so they could live in the lap of luxury. The fact that he grew up in the lap of luxury was used to discredit the candidate's claim of wanting to represent working-class citizens. Compared to life the village where he grew up, my grandfather said earning minimum wage and living in a one-bedroom apartment in New York felt like the lap of luxury to him.See also: lap, luxury, oflap of luxuryFig. a luxurious situation. I rather enjoy living in the lap of luxury. You call this pigpen the lap of luxury?See also: lap, luxury, oflap of luxury, theAffluent circumstances. This term, with its allusion to a traditional place of comfort and ease, the human lap, no doubt owes its popularity to its fluid alliteration. It dates from the late eighteenth century and appeared in print in 1802 in Maria Edgeworth’s Moral Tales. See also: lap, ofAcronymsSeeLOLlap of luxury
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