set for life

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set for life

  1. (idiomatic) Possessing sufficient resources, especially financial, to last a lifetime.
    • 1938 November 11, Westbrook Pegler, “Fair Enough”, in The Evening Independent, St. Petersburg, Florida, retrieved 20 December 2008, page A1:
      In that case he has to pay her alimony even if there are no children, and if she is one of those smart ones, interested in nothing but a good living and independence, she is set for life.
    • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 45:
      Before he and my mother were killed together in a holiday airbus crash five years later, they had seen the new companies drive all competing oils off the market and those of us who had been in at the beginning apparently well set for life.
    • 2008 December 18, Gina Davidson, “HBOS jolly not in festive spirit”, in Scotsman, UK, retrieved 20 December 2008:
      It wasn't that long ago when getting a bank job after school meant you were set for life.

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