Riley, the life of
Riley, the life of a comfortable pleasant carefree existence; the phrase is said to originate in a late 19th-century song, but this has not so far been traced. To date the earliest version is found in H. Pease' song My Name is Kelly (1919), ‘my name is Kelly Michael Kelly, But I'm living the life of Reilly.’
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