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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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Easy Street is a lane along the wharf at Nantucket Island. When sailors were returning after a long and successful whaling trip, they would look forward to being "on Easy Street" with money in their pockets.

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