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live down

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live down something
to do well so that others forget something bad you said or did. Ken is still trying to live down his comment that most of what's on the Web now is crap. After the way she behaved at the office party, I don't think she'll ever be able to live it down.
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Pickwick, 'you don't really mean to say that human beings live down in those wretched dungeons?
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
With Scotch patience and pluck he resolved to live down his reputation and work his way into the legal field yet.
Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context
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