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live and breathe

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1. live and breathe - Verb

2. live and breathe - Phrase

Meaning

live and breathe (third-person singular simple present lives and breathes, present participle living and breathing, simple past and past participle lived and breathed)

To be thoroughly immersed in or concentrated on (something).
To run a successful business, you have to live and breathe your product.

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We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Men need to live and breathe women. Adam Levine

We live and breathe words. Cassandra Clare

This world, the whole of the planet called earth, is the common country of all who live and breathe upon it. Desiderius Erasmus

He said, 'The royal robe I wear Trails all along the fields of light: Its silent blue and silver bear For gems the starry dust of night.' 'The breath of joy unceasingly Waves to and fro its folds starlit, And far beyond earth's misery I live and breathe the joy of it. George William Russell

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga. Lady Gaga

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