live out

live out
{v.} 1. To finish (a period of time); spend. * /Smith lived out the year in the North as he had agreed, but then moved to the South again./ * /After retiring, John and his wife lived out their lives in Florida./ 2. To last through; endure to the end of. * /We lived out the winter on short ration./ * /He lived out the earthquake, but his house was destroyed./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • live-out — /liv owt /, adj. residing away from the place of one s employment: a live out cook. [1965 70; by analogy with LIVE IN] * * * …   Universalium

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  • live out of a suitcase — {v. phr.} To have no permanent residence or a permanent place to hang one s clothes. * /When Jennifer accepted her new job, she had no idea that she would have to live out of a suitcase for six months./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • live out of a suitcase — {v. phr.} To have no permanent residence or a permanent place to hang one s clothes. * /When Jennifer accepted her new job, she had no idea that she would have to live out of a suitcase for six months./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • live out in the boonies — v. live out in the sticks, live in the boondocks, live in a very remote and isolated location …   English contemporary dictionary

  • live\ out\ of\ a\ suitcase — v. phr. To have no permanent residence or a permanent place to hang one s clothes. When Jennifer accepted her new job, she had no idea that she would have to live out of a suitcase for six months …   Словарь американских идиом

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