easy street
Life without hardship
Easy street is a state of financial comfort and security, free from worry about money: Once she paid off the mortgage, she was on easy street.
The phrase nearly always appears with "on"—you live on easy street rather than in it.
The street metaphor suggests a pleasant place where life proceeds smoothly.
- sitting prettyIn favorable circumstances
- cash cowDependable income source
- affluenceAbundance of money
- fat catWealthy, influential person
- abundanceAmple supply, overflowing
rolling in it · prosperity · lap of luxury · velvet · clover · life of Riley · living large · wealth · paradise · made in the shade · security · jackpot · smooth sailing · good fortune · windfall · free ride · heaven · good life
- Complacencytoo comfortable, going through motions, phoning it in, mailing it in, self-satisfied
- money slangbucks, dough, moolah, cheddar, cash
- prosperitywealth, riches, fortune, success, abundance
- figurative placeslimbo, crossroads, dead end, comfort zone, happy place
easy streetpoverty
Severe lack of resources
hard times · skid row · destitution · penury · financial ruin
easy streetstruggle
Labored effort against resistance
hard road · rough patch · uphill battle · tough sledding · adversity
easy, ease, uneasy, easygoing, easing, easier, eased, eases, easy-care