high on the hog

短语

奢侈地,豪华地,养尊处优地

发音

AU

词形变化

higher on the hog 比较级 higher on the hog highest on the hog highest on the hog 最高级

别名

high off the hog

释义与例句

adv.
  1. 1.

    Well off; living comfortably or extravagantly due to great wealth or financial security.

    美国 习语

    Ever since his promotion, they’ve been living high on the hog.

    The synthetic belle wins the prize and her creators are eating high off the hog until the nation’s Press demands a look at the original.

词源

An allusion to the best and costliest cuts of meat from a hog, considered to be parts above the belly such as the loin, rather than lower parts such as the feet, knuckles, hocks, belly, and jowls. US, late 1800s; popularized 1940s. The variant forms – live/eat and on/off – are attested since at least the 1930s. However, decades earlier is the phrase on the hog, originally on the hog train meaning someone living on little expense.

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