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Meanings of high life in English

Catalan
prodigalitat
Spanish
gran vida

Excessive spending.

        prodigalitat
        Usage of high life in English
        1
        That is the way things are managed in high life in Europe.
        Elinor Wyllys; Or, The Young Folk of Longbridge: A Tale. Volume ...
        2
        The event was eagerly anticipated in the fashionable circles of high life.
        Lady Rosamond's Secret: A Romance of Fredericton
        3
        It was a great dinner-all in the tastes of high life.
        The True George Washington [10th Ed.]
        4
        I'll retire with all this beautiful money, and live the high life.
        Midnight hero
        5
        I always thought the high life, the cigarettes, would see her off.
        Atonement
        6
        This high life don't suit me too durned well, put in Benwell.
        Mavericks
        7
        Synopsis: A successful journalist flits between culture and the high life in Rome.
        Reuters
        8
        This planter lived in Savannah in high life, as most wealthy planters do.
        History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantr...
        9
        Uncle Smith always said I was the one cut out for high life.
        My Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph
        10
        This taste of the old high life has spoiled me for everything else.
        The Man from Brodney's
        11
        By the Lord Harry, Elias, there will be several sensations in high life.
        Jane Cable
        12
        So there was the end of high life for Peter Gudge.
        100%: the Story of a Patriot
        13
        He was unmarried and lonely, and he wanted to lead a high life.
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 29, 1891
        14
        So did a good many other people until you went into high life.
        Cashel Byron's Profession
        15
        Do you know how people in high life look from the under world?
        Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger
        16
        When the money ran out, so, too, did the high life-fora while.
        The new yorker
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