high off the hog

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1. alternativeAlternative form of high on the hog.

   It must be said that the Jap guards didn't live high off the hog either.

   2013, Reg Twigg, Survivor on the River Kwai

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   You are talking about the all income, so you are talking about a very sizable tax increase for a mall segment of our economy, I admit, but they are not exactly people who are eating highest off the hog at this point in our economy.

   1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security, President's Social Security Proposals, page 367

   After paying off my debts, I started living a little higher off the hog, ordering the best bourbon at Marco's, dressing better, playing the lottery, and rejoining the poker game, where my luck was, as usual, lousy.

   1998, Robert Perrin, Piggy's Luck and More Tales of Evildoing, page 13