the.com/lap of luxury
Where problems are solved by people you pay, not skills you have.
means A life of such comfort and wealth that other people handle your problems for you.
from "Lap" here carries its old sense of a cradling, encircling space — like being held in someone's lap — a spot of comfort and enclosure, a usage traceable back for centuries. Paired with "luxury" (from Latin luxuria, meaning excess or abundance, originally tied to riotous overgrowth), the phrase pictures wealth as a soft, encircling seat that catches you and does the work gravity and effort would otherwise demand.
- origin
- lap meant comfort or care, not racetracks
- first recorded
- used since the 1800s in print
- myth
- nothing to do with swimming pools or laps
- real marker
- when convenience costs more than the thing itself