heureux comme un roi - Mot du Jour

heureux comme un roi - French expression

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heureux comme un roi. heureux means happy and, un roi is a king. heureux comme un roi means ‘as happy as a clam, couldn’t be happier’. Two similar expressions come to my mind: heureux comme un pape - as happy as a pope - and heureux comme un loir - as happy as a dormouse (a squirrelly-looking mouse). Why is it a clam in English? I’m not not sure. I’ve also heard ‘happy as Larry’.

This expression, weirdly enough, is not used in its feminine form. I never hear ‘heureuse comme une reine‘.