As I live and breathe!

As I live and breathe!
As I live and breathe!
Fig. How amazing! (Said on seeing or experiencing something surprising.) •

As I live and breathe, here we are again!

Well, as I live and breathe, it's Harry Smith!


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • live and breathe — To be passionately enthusiastic about • • • Main Entry: ↑live * * * see live I * * * live and breathe ◇ If you live and breathe something, you spend a great deal of time, thought, or effort on that thing. She lives and breathes music. They live… …   Useful english dictionary

  • live and breathe something — phrase to be very enthusiastic about a particular activity and spend all the time you can doing it or talking about it Some people live and breathe football. Thesaurus: to be, or to become interested in somethingsynonym Main entry: live * * * be… …   Useful english dictionary

  • live and breathe something — live and breathe (something) if you live and breathe an activity or subject, you spend most of your time doing it or thinking about it because you like it so much. For twenty years I ve lived and breathed dance. It s been my whole life …   New idioms dictionary

  • live and breathe — (something) if you live and breathe an activity or subject, you spend most of your time doing it or thinking about it because you like it so much. For twenty years I ve lived and breathed dance. It s been my whole life …   New idioms dictionary

  • live and breathe — ► live and breathe be devoted to (a subject or activity). Main Entry: ↑live …   English terms dictionary

  • live and breathe something — to be very enthusiastic about a particular activity and spend all the time you can doing it or talking about it Some people live and breathe football …   English dictionary

  • as I live and breathe — old fashioned phrase used for expressing surprise Thesaurus: old fashioned expressions of surprisesynonym Main entry: live * * * used, esp. in spoken English, to express one s surprise at coming across someone or something good Lord, Jack Stone,… …   Useful english dictionary

  • live and breathe something — be devoted to a subject or activity. → live …   English new terms dictionary

  • as I live and breathe — old fashioned used for expressing surprise …   English dictionary

  • Live, eat and breathe — to be utterly fanatical about; to be obsessed with: He lives, eats and breathes 4 wheel drives …   Dictionary of Australian slang

  • Live, eat, breathe and shit — to be utterly fanatical about; to be obsessed with: He lives, eats and breathes 4 wheel drives …   Dictionary of Australian slang

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