- Home
- Idioms
- live in a tree
live in a tree
live in a tree
To be lucky. A '50s college expression, used in such contexts as telling a roommate whose exam for which he was unprepared was suddenly postponed: “Jeez, pal— you live in a tree.”
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Eleanora | | el-ə-NAWR-ə | English |
| Rodney | | ['rɔdni] | |
| Ricarda | | ree-KAHR-dah (Spanish) | Spanish, German |
| Adrianus | | ah-dree-AH-nus, AH-dree-ah-nus | Dutch |
| Cemal | | - | Turkish |
| Gerda (2) | | YER-dah (Swedish) | Swedish, Norwegian, Danish |