live it up

live it up
live it up
to have an exciting time; to do what one pleases—regardless of cost—to please oneself. •

At the party, John was really living it up.

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Come on! Have fun! Live it up!

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{v. phr.}, {informal} To pursue pleasure; enjoy games or night life very much; have fun at places of entertainment. * /Joe had had a hard winter in lonesome places; now he was in town living it up./ * /The western cowboys usually went to town on Saturdays to live it up./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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