sitting pretty

sitting pretty
*sitting pretty
living in comfort or luxury; living in a good situation. (*Typically: be \sitting pretty; leave someone \sitting pretty.) •

My uncle died and left enough money for me to be sitting pretty for the rest of my life.

Now that I have a goodpaying job, I'm sitting pretty.

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{adj.}, {slang} To be in a lucky position. * /The new library is sitting pretty because a wealthy woman gave it $10,000 worth of reference books./ * /Mr. Jones was sitting pretty until his $25,000-a-year job was dropped by the company./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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