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live and breathe

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live and breathe something
if you live and breathe an activity or subject, you spend most of your time doing it or thinking about it because you like it so much. For twenty years I've lived and breathed dance. It's been my whole life.
See also: breathe, live
live and breathe something
to be extremely interested in something. I found it hard to discuss the poems, since I did not live and breathe poetry like many of my classmates did.
See also: breathe, live
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Far above that earth on which he had known no joys; in the midst of that night which sent to him its softest radiance; on the way to that heaven toward which he uplifted his spirit, as though in a miraculous assumption, he seemed already to live and breathe in the new existence.
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
She fights in me and conquers in me, and I live and breathe in her, and owe my life and being to her.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
For seven years, didn't I study every look and motion, and only live and breathe to please him?
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
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