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live high on the hog

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live high on the hog also live high off the hog
to live in great comfort with a lot of money Gardner, who made only $8,000 last year, has definitely not been living high on the hog.
Related vocabulary: live it up
Etymology: based on the idea that better quality meat is found on the upper parts of a hog (pig)
See also: high, hog, live
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Matthew Elliot of the TaxPayers' Alliance summed up the mounting disgust among millions of voters as he said: "Too many MPs live high on the hog despite growing concern about how our money is spent.
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Sierra Leone has had a further problem in that much of the wealth there was earned by the mining of gold and diamonds: this has led to the "resource curse," which means the rulers live high on the hog from the fees for those products, while leaving the rest of the country to founder in desperate poverty.
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She said, If your father can live high on the hog, so can we, and I bit my lip and nodded along, kept nodding as something came into her face and went away again.
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