Clover.

He’s in clover. In luck, in prosperous circumstances, in a good situation. The allusion is to cattle feeding in clover fields.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Closh (Mynherr)
Cloten
Cloth (The)
Clotharius
Clotho
Cloud, Clouds
Cloud
Cloud (St.)
Clouded Cane (A)
Cloven Foot
Clover
Clowns
Club
Club-bearer (The)
Club-land
Club-law
Clue
Clumsy (Norwegian, klump, a lump, Swedish, klummsen, benumbed; Icelandic, klumsa)
Cluricaune
Clydesdale Horses
Clym of the Clough