in the lap of luxury
livingin verycomfortableconditionsbecause you have a lot ofmoney
生活优裕，养尊处优having a lot of money
- richShe's one of the richest women in the country.
- wealthyOliver's parents are very wealthy.
- well offAfter years of working hard, we are now quite well off.
- loadedThey don't have any money worries - they're loaded.
- flushHe's flush with cash.
Rich and wealthy
- affluence
- bankability
- bankable
- bazillionaire
- be rolling in itidiom
- be stinking richidiom
- born with a silver spoon inyourmouthidiom
- clover
- creditworthy
- fat
- landed
- moneyed
- not be short of a bob or twoidiom
- prosperity
- purchasing power
- roll
- self-supporting
- strike
- strike goldidiom
- wealthy
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in the lap of luxury
These pictures confirm that daguerreotypes accommodated, simultaneously, ' ' the informal portrait of the common man ' ' and the more ostentatious portraits of thoseinthelapofluxury.
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This is just what is to be expected—rich men livinginthelapofluxury—when it comes to one of their own class.
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Now he is livinginthelapofluxury.
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It conjures up a concept of people livinginthelapofluxurywithout having to fend for themselves.
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Sometimes they are said to beinthelapofluxury, and at other times they are said to be the poor relations.
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They do not liveinthelapofluxury.
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Again, the miners, who are the highest paid wage earners in the country, are not livinginthelapofluxury.
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People are living on the streets while others liveinthelapofluxury.
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It is not livinginthelapofluxury.
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In less than no time they had prefabricated huts, the most magnificent anti-malarial precautions and refrigerators, they brought electricity with them and were livinginthelapofluxury.
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There are other means of obtaining that help, not from the depressed one-tenth of our people but from those who even today are livinginthelapofluxury.
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On the other hand, there are sycophants living todayinthelapofluxurywho have never lifted a single finger to help the country's progress.
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He's enjoying using a rich woman and stayinginthelapofluxury.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Having spent the past few years in a rundown children's home, the girls now find themselvesinthelapofluxury.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel the officeres eat and drink until their hearts delight while the best hotel refers to them livinginthelapofluxury.
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- thoroughfare
- thoroughgoing
- thorough inquiry
- thorough inspection
- thorough knowledge
- thorough look
- thoroughly
- thorough manner
- thoroughness
- thorough preparation
- thorough research
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- thesaurus/overpowering
- thesaurus/overpriced
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- thesaurus/overweight
- thesaurus/overwhelming
- thesaurus/own-up
- thesaurus/pace
- thesaurus/pacify
- thesaurus/pact
- thesaurus/pain