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lap of luxury |
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lap of luxury Fig. a luxurious situation. I rather enjoy living in the lap of luxury. You call this pigpen the lap of luxury? How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Come, ma'am, you know you were born in the lap of luxury. And Mr Dorrit's daughter that day began, in earnest, her competition with that woman not present; and began it so well that Mr Dorrit could all but have taken his affidavit, if required, that Mrs Sparkler had all her life been lying at full length in the lap of luxury, and had never heard of such a rough word in the English tongue as Marshalsea. You're a blighted being, and decidedly cross today because you can't sit in the lap of luxury all the time. |
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