eat (live) high on the hog

[eat (live) high on the hog] or [eat (live) high off the hog] {v. phr.}

To eat or live well or elegantly.

* /For the first few days after the check arrived, they ate high on the hog./

Compare: IN CLOVER or IN THE CLOVER, ON EASY STREET.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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