high living
Champagne and caviar
High living is an extravagant lifestyle marked by expensive pleasures—fine dining, luxury goods, lavish entertainment.
The phrase often carries a note of disapproval or warning about excess: Years of high living had depleted his inheritance.
Someone living high is spending freely, perhaps beyond their means or beyond what's prudent.
- opulenceShowy, abundant prosperity
- hedonismPursuit of gratification
- elitismPreference for privileged rule
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- affluenceAbundance of money
old money · trust fund · Gilded Age · decadence · prosperity · ostentation · sybaritic · indulgence · fine dining · privilege · splendor · extravagance · designer labels · lavishness · lap of luxury · nobility · upper crust · conspicuous consumption
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- revelryrevelry, revel, festivity, festivities, celebration
- vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
high livingfrugality
Economical resource management
austerity · simple living · thrift · plain living · abstemiousness
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