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Phrase(s): live on (after someone or something)
to be remembered long after someone or something might otherwise be forgotten or dead, in the case of persons. • His good works will live on long after him. • Fears of war will live on after the actual conf lict. • I hope my memory lives on., Phrase(s): live on
an amount of money to live on a specific amount of money; to manage to live on a specific amount of money. • Can you live on only that much money? • I can live on a very small amount of money., Phrase(s): live on something
to depend on something for sustenance. (Compare this with live off someone or something.) • I can’t live on bread and water. • We can hardly live on $500 a week.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. Be financially supported by, subsist on, as in His pension is too small to live on. [Mid-1600s] 2. Continue to survive, especially unexpectedly, as in They thought the cancer would kill her, but Lucy lived on for another twenty years. 3. Remain in human memory, as in This book will live on long after the author's death.
American Heritage Idioms