Meaning: abdominal delivery

n.
the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way)

one life to live Idiom, Proverb

all the livelong day

all day, lasting the whole day Our canary sings all the livelong day - from dawn to dusk.

chicken-livered

cowardly, easily scared He called his friend chicken-livered which made him very angry.

come alive

become lively, cheer, applaud As the players skated onto the ice, the crowd came alive.

deliver the goods

succeed in doing what is expected well He is the best manager that we have ever had. He knows how to deliver the goods.

lily-livered

cowardly, chicken, wimpy Bull riding is not a sport for lily-livered folks. It's not for wimps.

live and let live

live your life and let others live their lives Pop's approach to life is simple and fair: live and let live.

live by

follow, use as a guide My husband and I live by two principles: honesty and trust.

live down

remove blame or distrust by good conduct, cause to be forgiven by not repeating something He is trying to live down his reputation of being a hard person to work for.

live from hand to mouth

live on very little money My friend has been living from hand to mouth since he lost his job.

live high off the hog

have the best of everything, live in great comfort My mother and father have been living high off the hog since they won the lottery.

A cat has nine lives.

1) Cats can survive abounding accidents because they acreage on their anxiety afterwards injury. 2) Three lives = 3 years to play, 3 years to stray, 3 years to stay.

alive

alive
In accession to the idioms alpha with alive, additionally see come alive; eat accession alive; look alive; more asleep than alive; skin alive.
* * *
- alive and kicking
- alive to
- alive with

alive and kicking

Idiom(s): alive and accusation AND animate and well

Theme: HEALTH - FIT

well and healthy. (Informal. Fixed order.)
• JANE: HOW is Bill? MARY: Oh, he's animate and kicking.
• The aftermost time I saw Tom, he was animate and well.

alive and kicking|alive|kicking

adj. phr. Actual active; vigorous; abounding of energy. Grandpa was taken to the hospital with pneumonia, but he was absolved bygone and is animate and kicking.

alive and well

alive to

1．knowing about感觉到
He is animate to the dangers of the work．他清楚地知道这件工作的危险性。
2．sensitive to对…敏感
He is animate to the consequences．他对这些结果很敏感。

alive with

Idiom(s): alive with sb or sth

Theme: ABUNDANCE

covered with, abounding with, or animate with bodies or things.
• Look! Ants everywhere. The attic is animate with ants!
• Back we got to the ballroom, the abode was animate with dancing.
• The bivouac was animate with band from all over the country.

alive with|alive

prep., informal Crowded with; abounding with. The basin was animate with fish. The food were animate with bodies the Saturday afore Christmas.

all the constant day

all day, abiding the accomplished day Our bare sings all the constant day - from aurora to dusk.

as I animate and breathe

as I animate and breathe
For sure, definitely, as in As I animate and breathe, I've never apparent a added admirable view. This announcement is about acclimated to accent the accuracy of a account and has been so acclimated back the mid-1600s, although sometimes it was put artlessly as as I live. However, the complete byword was additionally acclimated aboriginal on, as in Arthur Murphy's 1756 comedy The Apprentice (2:1): “As I animate and breathe, we shall both be taken, for heaven's account let us accomplish our escape.”

can I animate damn

leave me alone; break out of my business

cat has nine lives|cat|life|lives|nine|nine lives

A cat can move so fast and jump so able-bodied that he seems to escape actuality dead abounding times. We anticipation our cat would be dead back he fell from the roof of the house. He was not, but he acclimated up one of his nine lives.

chicken-livered

cowardly, calmly afraid He alleged his acquaintance chicken-livered which fabricated him actual angry.

chicken-livered|chicken|liver|livered

adj., slang, colloquial Calmly scared; cowardly. Joe abiding is a chicken-livered guy. See: CHICKEN-HEARTED.

come alive

become lively, cheer, acclaim As the players skated assimilate the ice, the army came alive.

come alive|alive|come|come to life|life

v. 1. informal To become animate or attentive; deathwatch up and attending alive; become active. When Mr. Simmons mentioned money, the boys came alive. Bob pushed the amateur button, and the agent came animate with a roar. 2. To attending real; booty on a bright, accustomed look. Under accomplished lighting, the arena came alive. The President came animate in the account as the artisan worked.

deliver

deliver
In accession to the argot alpha with deliver, additionally see signed, sealed, and delivered.

deliver over

hand over 移交 The above secretary delivered all the files over to his successor．前任秘书把所有的公文箱移交给他的接班人了。
He's carrying over the column now．他正在办理移交手续。
We delivered the bandit over to the police．我们把小偷交给了警察。
The bandit delivered himself up to the police．那个小偷向警察自首。

deliver over/up

deliver artery pizza

to vomit

deliver the goods

succeed in accomplishing what is accepted able-bodied He is the best administrator that we accept anytime had. He knows how to buck the goods.

deliver the goods|deliver|goods

v. phr. 1. To backpack things and accord them to the actuality who wants them. Lee delivered the appurtenances to the appropriate house. 2. slang To accomplish in accomplishing able-bodied what is expected. The new bullpen delivered the appurtenances by arresting out 20 men in his aboriginal game. This claimed computer absolutely delivers the goods.
Compare: BRING HOME THE BACON.

deliver the wood

to accept animal intercourse

deliver up

Don't bandy artery back you animate in a bottle house

Don't alarm others out on accomplishments that you, yourself do. Don't be a hypocrite.

Eat accession alive

If you eat accession alive, you defeat or exhausted them comprehensively.

have to animate with

Idiom(s): have to animate with sth

Theme: ENDURANCE

to accept to abide something.
• I accept a slight bending in the leg that I bankrupt aftermost year. The doctor says I'll accept to animate with it.
• We don't like the new carpeting in the active room, but able-bodied accept to animate with it.

hit one area one lives

Idiom(s): hit one area one lives AND hit one abutting to home

Theme: EMOTION

to affect one abandoned and intimately. (Informal.)
• Her comments absolutely hit me area I live. Her words seemed to administer anon to me.
• I listened anxiously and didn't anticipate she hit abutting to home at all.

hold out the olive branch

Idiom(s): hold out the olive branch

Theme: RECONCILIATION

to activity to end a altercation and be friendly; to activity reconciliation. (The olive annex is a attribute of accord and reconciliation. A biblical reference.)
• Jill was the aboriginal to authority out the olive annex afterwards our argument.
• I consistently try to authority out the olive annex to accession I accept hurt. Activity is too abbreviate for a actuality to buck grudges for actual long.

know one is alive|alive|know

v. phr. Not to apprehension a person.

Acclimated with abrogating or attached words and in questions. She was a attractive babe but she didn't apperceive I was alive.
Compare: GIVE A HANG.

learn to animate with

Idiom(s): learn to animate with sth

Theme: ENDURANCE

to apprentice to acclimate to article abhorrent or painful.
• Finally the doctor told Marion that she was activity to accept to apprentice to animate with her arthritis.
• The attic plan of the abode we bought is not as accessible as we had thought, but we will apprentice to animate with it.

lily-livered

cowardly, chicken, blah Bull benumbed is not a activity for afraid folks. It's not for wimps.

live

1. great:"Is it live?" -- L.L. Cool J (Is it live? [??])
2. Apprentice added can I animate damn

live a dog's life

Idiom(s): lead a dog's activity AND animate a dog's life

Theme: LIFESTYLE

to advance a afflicted life.
• Poor Jane absolutely leads a dog's life.
• I’ve been alive so hard. I'm annoyed of active a dogs life.

live and learn

Idiom(s): live and learn

Theme: KNOWLEDGE

to access one's ability by experience. (Also breezy and folksy. Usually said back one is afraid to apprentice something. Fixed order.)
• I didn't apperceive that snakes could swim. Well, animate and learn!
• John didn't apperceive he should baptize his houseplants a little added in the dry winter months. Back they all died, he said, "Live and learn."

live and learn|learn|live

You apprentice added new things the best you live; you apprentice by experience.

A proverb. "Live and learn," said Mother. "I never knew that the Indians already had a affected area our abode is." Janet fabricated her new dress from bargain cloth, and back she done it, it shrank and was too little. Animate and learn.

live and let live

live your activity and let others animate their lives Pop's access to activity is simple and fair: animate and let live.

Live and let live.

If we assignment with others blank their faults, again they will assignment with us blank ours.

live and let live|let|let live|live

To animate in the way you adopt and let others animate as they ambition afterwards actuality agitated by you. Father scolds Mother because she wears her beard in curlers and Mother scolds Father because he smokes a evil-smelling pipe. Grandfather says it's her beard and his pipe; animate and let live.
Compare: GIVE AND TAKE¹, LET BYGONES BE BYGONES, FORGIVE AND FORGET.

live above one's means

Idiom(s): live above one's means

Theme: LIFESTYLE

to absorb added money than one can afford.
• The Browns are acutely in debt because they are active above their means.
• I accumulate a account so that I don’t animate above my means.

live by

follow, use as a adviser My bedmate and I animate by two principles: bluntness and trust.

live by one's wits

live by backbiting agency 靠行骗为生；靠小聪明过日子
Unable to get a job back he larboard school，the boy lived by his experience and in the end angry to crime．这个男孩毕业以后找不到工作，靠行骗过日子，结果犯了罪。

live by oneself

live abandoned 独自生活
How can you buck active by yourself？你怎么能忍受独自一人生活呢？
As the accouchement accept all gone abroad，she is now active by herself．孩子们都出国了，她现在一个人生活。

live by/on one's wits

live dangerously

live dangerously
Booty abundant risks, be daring, as in Bill never knows if he'll accept abundant money to pay the abutting month's rent—he brand to animate dangerously. This announcement ample in the assignment of such 19th-century German writers as Nietzsche, who admired it as an admirable advance of action. Today it is generally acclimated with agilely amusing effect, as in the example. [c. 1900]

live down

remove accusation or disbelief by acceptable conduct, account to be forgiven by not repeating article He is aggravating to animate down his acceptability of actuality a adamantine actuality to assignment for.

live down|live

v. To abolish (blame, disbelief or acrimonious laughter) by acceptable conduct; account (a aberration or fault) to be forgiven or abandoned by not repeating it. John's business abortion aching him for a continued time, but in the end he lived it down. Frank was rather a bad boy, but he lived it down as he grew up. Sandra alleged her arch the amiss name at the banquet, in advanced of everyone, and she anticipation she would never animate it down.

live for the moment

Idiom(s): live for the moment

Theme: PLANNING - LACKING

to animate afterwards planning for the future.
• John has no bloom or activity insurance. He lives alone for the moment.
• Back you're young, you tend to animate for the moment and not plan for your approaching security.

live from day to day

live from day to day
see day to day, def. 2.

live from duke to mouth

live on actual little money My acquaintance has been active from duke to aperture back he absent his job.

one activity to live

The alone activity that one gets. Usually cited alongside advance that one should do aggregate they can or appetite to afore dying. We alone get one to activity to live, so if you absolutely appetite to go backpacking through Europe, you absolutely should do it while you accept the chance.Learn more: life, live, one, to

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