high off the hog

English

Adverb

high off the hog (comparative higher off the hog, superlative highest off the hog)

1. Alternative form of high on the hog
   • 1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security, President's Social Security Proposals, page 367:

     You are talking about the all income, so you are talking about a very sizable tax increase for a mall segment of our economy, I admit, but they are not exactly people who are eating highest off the hog at this point in our economy.

   • 1998, Robert Perrin, Piggy's Luck and More Tales of Evildoing, page 13:

     After paying off my debts, I started living a little higher off the hog, ordering the best bourbon at Marco's, dressing better, playing the lottery, and rejoining the poker game, where my luck was, as usual, lousy.

   • 2013, Reg Twigg, Survivor on the River Kwai:

     It must be said that the Jap guards didn't live high off the hog either.