Meaning of SITTING PRETTY - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So in English if you're sitting pretty it means that you're in a good situation or you're
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in a good spot in life.
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So a good example would be if you won the lottery and you won enough money that you
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didn't have to work anymore.
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We would say that you are sitting pretty because you have enough money that you can just stay
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home and do nothing.
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I would be bored if that happened to me, by the way.
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Another good example would be, maybe you're in a class and for the entire semester you
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have been getting 100% on every test and all you have left in that course is the exam.
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We would say that in that course you are sitting pretty.
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So it just means that you're in a good spot, you're in an advantageous spot and you don't
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really have to worry too much about either money in the money situation or your grades
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in the grade situation.
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