Ever since his promotion, they’ve been living high on the hog.

With all the tenderloin, spareribs and backbones, we lived “high off the hog”.

Down our way there is a favorite expression used quite often—“eating high on the hog”. That is what our competitors have been doing…

The synthetic belle wins the prize and her creators are eating high off the hog until the nation’s Press demands a look at the original.

If she was pulling this scam off all that time, I think she'd be living a little higher on the hog, don't you?

High on the hog

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