Sitting Pretty - to be lucky or to be in an advantageous positionorigin: this American expression comes from the early 1900's. Sitting is a comfortable position and pretty is an adjective suggesting beauty, leading to the suggestion of an easy, favorable situation.
It comes from the old west, when people where ridding there wagons, one guy held the horse reigns, and other guy had a shotgun, watching out of Indians or raiders.
on velvetSlang for "sitting pretty," it means things are going very well. For example, "I saw Erin yesterday and she told me she finally got a Web sponsor, she was on velvet."
Palestinian and Persian
It is just an idiom and has no history.
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To be exposed
A good idiom would be "sitting on the fence."
Origin "up a storm"
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It comes from the old west, when people where ridding there wagons, one guy held the horse reigns, and other guy had a shotgun, watching out of Indians or raiders.
The meaning of this idiom is "an easy target".
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To hope for the best
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