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Phrase(s): live under someone or something
to dwell directly beneath someone or something. • We live under the Johnsons. They are fairly quiet. • We lived under a law office for a few years., Phrase(s): live under something
(negative) to exist under some kind of worry or threat. • I can’t continue to live under the threat of bankruptcy all the time. • It is hard to live under the worry of another war.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs