lap of luxury

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lap of luxury (singular only)

1. (idiomatic) A position or situation in which one is spoiled and indulged.
   • 1981 February 14, Andrea Loewenstein, “Voices in the Night”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 8:

     Now dear, I hope my daughter has warned you we are not exactly living of of the lap of luxury you might say. […] Now I want you to prepare yourself right now because I am certain it is not the kind of surroundings you are used to from where you come from, dear.

   • 2010 September, Nicole Benoist Edgerton, “From Paris with love”, in St. Louis Magazine, volume 16, number 9, page 48:

     You'd think being born into the lap of luxury would encourage indolence, but that's not the case for Kilian Hennessy […] .

• “in the lap of luxury”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “lap of luxury”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “in the lap of luxury” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “in the lap of luxury”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “in the lap of luxury” (US) / “in the lap of luxury” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.