Meanings
- idiomaticsingularsingular onlyA position or situation in which one is spoiled and indulged.
You'd think being born into the lap of luxury would encourage indolence, but that's not the case for Kilian Hennessy[…].
2010 September, Nicole Benoist Edgerton, “From Paris with love”, in St. Louis Magazine, volume 16, number 9, page 481 more example
Now dear, I hope my daughter has warned you we are not exactly living of of ^([sic]) the lap of luxury you might say. […] Now I want you to prepare yourself right now because I am certain it is not the kind of surroundings you are used to from where you come from, dear.
1981 February 14, Andrea Loewenstein, “Voices in the Night”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 8
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