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Meanings of
high life
in English
Catalan
prodigalitat
Spanish
gran vida
Back to the meaning
Excessive spending.
extravagance
prodigality
lavishness
highlife
Catalan
prodigalitat
Synonyms
Examples for "
extravagance
"
extravagance
prodigality
lavishness
highlife
Examples for "
extravagance
"
1
The
extravagance
of the debates of those years amazes the modern reader.
2
That said, it was still a stunning example of balls-out gamer
extravagance
.
3
People shook their heads; a few suggested speculations; all agreed on
extravagance
.
4
Wealth rolled in upon him; he entered upon a career of
extravagance
.
5
But the
extravagance
of the satire in some measure injures its effect.
1
Those tales of the Far South were given out with some
prodigality
.
2
She had no care for the future, and exceeded men in
prodigality
.
3
The effects of misconduct are often the same as those of
prodigality
.
4
But neither is liberality a principal virtue, nor
prodigality
a capital vice.
5
Schubert, alone of all the composers, resembles him in his lyric
prodigality
.
1
His
lavishness
was indiscriminate except in that he entertained only the rich.
2
And you know the
lavishness
of the big ranches, then and now.
3
To all questions as to the surprising
lavishness
of cost, Diggory replied:
4
She sheds it on me hourly with a
lavishness
which scares me.
5
The liberal man tends to err in the direction of
lavishness
.
1
Into this maelstrom of the Herculaneum
highlife
our mad ox eagerly plunged.
2
He started off with
highlife
but then got down with Afro-funk.
3
All sorts of musical ingredients and outside influences entered the
highlife
mix during its glorious heyday.
4
His early recordings were in the
highlife
style, the first modern popular music of Ghana and Nigeria.
5
Generally I shy away from putting music into boxes but for
highlife
I'm happy to make an exception.
Usage of
high life
in English
1
That is the way things are managed in
high
life
in Europe.
2
The event was eagerly anticipated in the fashionable circles of
high
life
.
3
It was a great dinner-all in the tastes of
high
life
.
4
I'll retire with all this beautiful money, and live the
high
life
.
5
I always thought the
high
life
,
the cigarettes, would see her off.
6
This
high
life
don't suit me too durned well, put in Benwell.
7
Synopsis: A successful journalist flits between culture and the
high
life
in Rome.
8
This planter lived in Savannah in
high
life
,
as most wealthy planters do.
9
Uncle Smith always said I was the one cut out for
high
life
.
10
This taste of the old
high
life
has spoiled me for everything else.
11
By the Lord Harry, Elias, there will be several sensations in
high
life
.
12
So there was the end of
high
life
for Peter Gudge.
13
He was unmarried and lonely, and he wanted to lead a
high
life
.
14
So did a good many other people until you went into
high
life
.
15
Do you know how people in
high
life
look from the under world?
16
When the money ran out, so, too, did the
high
life
-
for
a
while.
Other examples for "high life"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
This collocation consists of:
high
life
high
Adjective
Noun
Translations for
high life
Catalan
prodigalitat
Spanish
gran vida
prodigalidad
suntuosidad
extravagancia
High life
through the time
High life
across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common