What’s something that’ll make a British person say, “ooh, someone’s doing alright for themselves”?

A friend tells a story which he swears is true. That he was behind two old biddies in Asda in Gloucester. One looked into the other’s basket and said ‘Coleslaw eh? Very lah-di-dah’.

Years ago my wife was making a sandwich and her Mum walks in.   "Oooh!" pipes up her Mum.  "Ham AND cheese.  Bit extravagant isn't it?"

My Dad said to me “your brother is doing really well for himself he has a bin that opens when you put your hand near it”!!

 Or when someone says ‘I knew you when you had nothing’ when you buy a slightly more expensive supermarket meal deal. Or my grandad used to say when I asked for a sugar in my coffee ‘all luxury you’ x

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