lap of luxury
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Noun
- (idiomatic) A position or situation in which one is spoiled and indulged.
- 2010 September, Nicole Benoist Edgerton, "From Paris with Love", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 48:
- You'd think being born into the lap of luxury would encourage indolence, but that's not the case for Kilian Hennessy […] .
- 2010 September, Nicole Benoist Edgerton, "From Paris with Love", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 48:
Further reading
- “in the lap of luxury”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “lap of luxury”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “in the lap of luxury” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “in the lap of luxury”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “in the lap of luxury” (US) / “in the lap of luxury” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
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