"high off the hog" meaning in English

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      "form": "higher off the hog",
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    {
      "form": "highest off the hog",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "word": "high on the hog"
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        {
          "ref": "1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security, President's Social Security Proposals, page 367:",
          "text": "You are talking about the all income, so you are talking about a very sizable tax increase for a mall segment of our economy, I admit, but they are not exactly people who are eating highest off the hog at this point in our economy.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Robert Perrin, Piggy's Luck and More Tales of Evildoing, page 13:",
          "text": "After paying off my debts, I started living a little higher off the hog, ordering the best bourbon at Marco's, dressing better, playing the lottery, and rejoining the poker game, where my luck was, as usual, lousy.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Reg Twigg, Survivor on the River Kwai:",
          "text": "It must be said that the Jap guards didn't live high off the hog either.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Alternative form of high on the hog"
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  "word": "high off the hog"
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    {
      "form": "higher off the hog",
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        "comparative"
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    },
    {
      "form": "highest off the hog",
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        "superlative"
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    }
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      "name": "en-adv"
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
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        {
          "ref": "1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security, President's Social Security Proposals, page 367:",
          "text": "You are talking about the all income, so you are talking about a very sizable tax increase for a mall segment of our economy, I admit, but they are not exactly people who are eating highest off the hog at this point in our economy.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Robert Perrin, Piggy's Luck and More Tales of Evildoing, page 13:",
          "text": "After paying off my debts, I started living a little higher off the hog, ordering the best bourbon at Marco's, dressing better, playing the lottery, and rejoining the poker game, where my luck was, as usual, lousy.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Reg Twigg, Survivor on the River Kwai:",
          "text": "It must be said that the Jap guards didn't live high off the hog either.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of high on the hog"
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