high off the hog AmE informal

I won't tell you how much it set me back, but we were really living high off the hog.

She was used to the city, theaters, and living high off the hog.

"Some of you are living high off the hog, and you're only 22," he said.

People think we are living high off the hog on welfare and casinos.

"Those guys wouldn't know an honest day's work if it were presented to them, because they live high off the hog," he said.

He was restructuring and I was living high off the hog.

It begins with a detailed description of a woman living high off the hog on welfare.

In some ways, they're beggaring their parents while living high off the hog."

We should be living high off the hog.

If you want to live high off the hog without having to do the dishes, restaurants are easy pickings.

If you think I'm living high off the hog, I've got one paycheck.

Lippy didn't exactly live high off the hog.

We've got 169 towns living extremely high off the hog and that's a reflection of the educational salaries," he said.

"Some of these guys have been living high off the hog for so long that it is hard to come back," Mr. Sporkin said.

Living high off the hog.

Northport has lived high off the hog because of the Lilco plant, which pays around 40 percent of the school taxes.

Add in Social Security income, and it's possible this couple will make ends meet in retirement, but they certainly won't be living high off the hog.

As long as the Europeans were paying a good price on the product, the Argentineans would live high off the hog, well, actually cows.

You'll live high off the hog, you'll be surrounded by the rich, and you simply won't have a chance to do anything good or decent for anybody.

The austerity of her office belies the myth that senior party leaders live high off the hog while the masses wallow in wretchedness.

High Off the Hog - The New York Times

Cartoonists such as Thomas Nast depicted them as piggish buffoons, living high off the hog.

He asserted that the Republicans' rural philosophy was, "The fewer farmers the better," and said his opponents "want to help people who live high off the hog."

Four lucky people will live high off the hog thanks to Harley-Davidson of Toronto and Classic Rock Q107.