easy street

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easy street (uncountable)

(idiomatic) A carefree situation or lifestyle, especially as resulting from possession of wealth.
- 1919, Upton Sinclair, chapter 8, in Jimmie Higgins:
  There was big money in it—the fellows who did that job might live on Easy Street the rest of their lives.

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