sitting pretty
Meaning: In a good or advantageous situation; living comfortably.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Category: Daily Life
Origin: The expression is often used to describe a financially advantageous situation (sentence 2). It is always used in the present participle form. It can be used in the past or future tenses by making the verb be past (sentence 1) or future (sentence 2).
More idioms — Daily Life
- let someone or something slip through someone's fingers — To lose something because one takes too much time to consider the situation.
- slow burn — To be quietly angry.
- slow off the mark — Slow [or quick] to understand a situation.
- sour grapes — A situation where a person criticizes something or someone out of jealousy.
- speak one's mind — To tell someone how one feels or what one thinks.
- speak one's piece — To tell someone how one feels or what one thinks.
More English idioms
- sleep like a log — To sleep so soundly that noise doesn't wake the person.
- snowball's chance in hell — No chance at all.
- sow one's wild oats — To do foolish or wild things, usually as a youth.
- speak of the devil — An expression used when someone who is being talked about has just appeared.
- spitting image — An exact likeness.
- split hairs — To argue about some detail that is not important.
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