easy street
IPA: ˈizistrit
noun
- (originally US, idiomatic, informal) Chiefly preceded by on: a carefree lifestyle or situation, especially as resulting from being wealthy.
- Alternative letter-case form of easy street [(originally US, idiomatic, informal) Chiefly preceded by on: a carefree lifestyle or situation, especially as resulting from being wealthy.]
Examples of "easy-street" in Sentences
- That's easy-street profit on the $1.3 trillion honey pot that is our super.
- But my father had insisted that this business would provide the big pay-out: next stop, easy-street.
- Glad it's here. i know a lot of young guys who want to get into the industry and think it's all easy-street and good times.
- Yet for all the daunting challenges, the new risk-taking is a vast improvement over an easy-street approach still favoured by too many of Canada's largest firms.
- He's appropriately cool when finding creative ways to goof off at work, convincingly nonplused when he realizes that the wheels are falling off of his easy-street dreams, and he's suitably sweaty when it dawns on him that Sarah's not the only one with tough choices to make.