comfortably off
Adjective

comfortably off

  1. (idiomatic) Reasonably wealthy
    • 1940, G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology, in the Foreword by C.P. Snow:
      From the time he was twenty-three he had all the leisure that a man could want, and as much money as he needed. A bachelor don in Trinity in the 1900's was comfortably off.



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