| 词汇 | like pigs in clover |
| 词源 | like pigs in clover. To be completely content, very happy. The first mention of the Americanism was a brief poem in the Bos- ton Gazette (Jan. 7, 1813): “Canadians! Then in droves come over, / And live henceforth like pigs in clover.” In Britain pigs in clover describes wealthy people behaving badly, but I’ve never heard or seen the words used that way in the U.S. See clover. |
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