high on the hog | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,US)Well off; livingcomfortablyorextravagantlydue to greatwealthor financial security.Ever since his promotion, they’ve been livinghigh on the hog.1912, George S. Jack, Edward Boyle Jacobs,History of Roanoke County,, page29:With all the tenderloin, spareribs and backbones, welived “high off the hog”.1927, Allegheny Regional Advisory Board,Proceedings of the regular meeting,, page21:Down our way there is a favorite expression used quite often—“eating high on the hog”. That is what our competitors have been doing…1934,Time,Volume 24, p. 68:The synthetic belle wins the prize and her creators areeating high off the hoguntil the nation’s Press demands a look at the original.2006, Julia Spencer-Fleming,All Mortal Flesh: A Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery:If she was pulling this scam off all that time, I think she'd be living a littlehigher on the hog, don't you?

Examples:

EN: Now, I'm pretty high on the hog, major, I've gotten to you.
ES: Por fin he llegado a la cima, a Vd.
EN: You and Kay could live - high on the hog on that.
ES: Quizás así Kay y tú podríais vivir a todo tren.
EN: That Cesar, he sure lives high on the hog.
ES: Ese César, seguro que vive a lo grande.
EN: It's just that... there are so many serious swindlers living high on the hog. That was my old excuse.
ES: Antes yo también me conformaba con eso, con seguir en libertad y continuar robando, pero ahora ya no es suficiente.
EN: And live high on the hog, instead of working your fingers to the bone like this
ES: Hasta con lujo, y vivís deslomándote
EN: I'm betting this $ 100 on you, laddie that you come back to St. Cloud number one, riding high on the hog.
ES: Apuesto estos 100 dólares por ti. Cuando vuelvas a St. Cloud serás nuestro gran héroe.
EN: If I had that much money and had a business I guess I'd just live high on the hog for as long as it lasted.
ES: Si tuviera tanto dinero y un negocio creo que viviría con todo lujo mientras durara.
EN: You know, we are really traveling high on the hog, considering that a couple of weeks ago we didn't even have a pot to...
ES: Estamos viajando con mucho dinero considerando que hace unas semanas no teníamos dónde caernos muertos...
EN: From now on you and me is gonna be living high on the hog:
ES: De ahora en adelante, tú y yo vamos a darnos la gran vida:
EN: Just the two of us high on the hog!
ES: Solo nosotros dos, a cuerpo de rey.
EN: And you said we was getting all out of shape by living this high on the hog.
ES: Dijiste que estábamos perdiendo la forma viviendo la buena vida. - ¿Eso dije?
EN: He's taken to a radio factory in Minsk where he lives as high on the hog as he ever has.
ES: Lo llevan a una fábrica de radios en Minsk donde se pega la gran vida.
EN: She was the one who was interested in spending money and who liked to live high on the hog and I think he wanted to sort of to buy her love and the way to buy her love was to get her expensive things."
ES: Ella era quien estaba interesada en gastar dinero y quien quería vivir por todo lo alto y yo creo que él quería de alguna forma comprar su amor y la forma de comprar su amor era conseguirle cosas caras."
EN: That's not enough. Well, I see someone's plannin' to live pretty high on the hog when I'm dead.
ES: Alguien está planeando vivir muy bien cuando yo muera.
EN: Someone's living high on the hog.
ES: Se da la gran vida.

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