live and die
/lɪv ən daɪ/
verb
- To experience the full range of life, including both successes and failures, joys and sorrows.
- As an artist, you have to live and die with your work, accepting both praise and criticism.
- In this business, we live and die by our reputation.
- She learned to live and die with the choices she made, knowing that regret wouldn't change anything.
- To be completely dependent on or defined by something; to succeed or fail based on a single factor.
- A small farm lives and dies with the weather each season.
- In sports, a team can live and die by the three-point shot.
- The company lives and dies by its customer service.
noun
- A situation or condition that involves extreme highs and lows, or total commitment.
- Their relationship was a live-and-die affair, full of passion and conflict.
- Starting your own business is a live-and-die kind of adventure.
- For him, surfing was a live-and-die obsession that consumed his every thought.