live and let live

live and let live
live and let live
Cliché not to interfere with other people's business or preferences. •

I don't care what they do! Live and let live, I always say.

Your parents are strict. Mine just live and let live.

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To live in the way you prefer and let others live as they wish without being bothered by you. * /Father scolds Mother because she wears her hair in curlers and Mother scolds Father because he smokes a smelly pipe. Grandfather says it's her hair and his pipe; live and let live./ Compare: GIVE AND TAKE(1), LET BYGONES BE BYGONES, FORGIVE AND FORGET.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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