sitting pretty
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- idiom
- Informal
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estar en una buena posición
- With around $7,000 a month in money available for travel, food, entertainment, goods, and gifts, you are sitting pretty, especially since you are putting away $122,000 a year in savings.
- now sitting pretty
- so he's sitting pretty
- still sitting pretty
Examples
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With a steady job and a comfortable home, she is sitting pretty for the upcoming years.
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I agree we will win out (more on that later), and because of that, we are definitely sitting pretty.
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Then we're all sitting pretty for the rest of our lives.
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But for about a week, I was sitting pretty.
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Long as I retire far away from here, I'm sitting pretty.
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You're sitting pretty for the rest of your life.
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You're sitting pretty with a gold mine working for you.
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Add to that a great college town vibe and low crowds, and Durango is sitting pretty in the San Juan Mountains.
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I've been recommending AAPL for almost four years now, and if you'd followed that advice, you would be sitting pretty right now.
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At 7-2, they are still sitting pretty atop the NFC North and only a game behind the 8-1 Atlanta Falcons.
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Synonyms
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A strong position with power or advantage
Living in comfort with plenty of money
Antonyms
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components give partial clues—'sitting' signals a current state and 'pretty' can function as an intensifier—so a learner may suspect a positive or stable situation, but the specific sense 'in an advantageous or comfortable position' is not directly derivable from the literal meanings. The phrase is idiomatic enough that its exact pragmatic meaning requires exposure or contextual inference rather than straightforward composition.
Etymology
Sitting pretty comes from a simple picture: someone comfortably sitting in a nice, safe place with nothing to worry about. That's why it now means 'in a comfortable or advantaged position'.