lifelife /laɪf/ ●●● S1 W1 noun (plural lives /laɪvz/) 
Learning goes on throughout life. You have your whole life ahead of you.in somebody’s life For the first time in my life I was happy. I’ve never been so embarrassed in my life! I’ve known John all my life (=since I was born). His main aim in life was to have fun. It was one of the best days of my life. The accident scarred him for life (=for the rest of his life). She knew she’d feel guilty for the rest of her life. Raj spent his life caring for others. Bonington spent his entire adult life in France. We don’t know much about the poet’s early life (=when he was young). Poor diet can lead to a whole range of diseases in later life (=when you are older). She married late in life (=when she was fairly old). He’s a life member (=continuing until he dies) of the club.2state of being alive [countable, uncountable] the state of being alive: The right to life is the most basic of human rights. Danny was a cheerful little boy who loved life. Two firefighters risked their lives to save the children.3way somebody lives [countable usually singular] the way you live your life, and what you do and experience during itlead/live/have a ... life The operation should enable Bobby to lead a normal life. She just wanted to live a quiet life. Having a baby changes your life completely. The family moved to Australia to start a new life. Ken’s whole life revolved around surfing (=that was the main interest and purpose of his life). You shouldn’t let your boyfriend rule your life (=control and affect everything you do). My grandmother had a hard life (=a life full of problems). She’s led a very sheltered life (=a life in which you have been protected from unpleasant things).a life of crime/poverty/misery etc He had been drawn into a life of crime.4particular situation/job [countable, uncountable] a)the experiences, activities, and ways of living that are typical of being in a particular job, situation, society etc: Why do so few women enter political life? the British way of lifecity/country/village etc life Noise has become one of the main pollutants of modern city life.army/student/college etc life He missed the routine of army life. Are you enjoying married life? b)the time in your life when you are doing a particular job, are in a particular situation etcsomebody’s life as something Now a celebrity chef, he rarely talks about his life as an army cook. Sara admits to having affairs throughout her married life. Most of his working life was spent in the shipyards.5social/personal/sex etc life the activities in your life relating to your friends, your family, sex etc: I don’t need advice about my love life. traditional views of family life Children need a caring and happy home life.6human existence [uncountable] human existence, considered as a variety of experiences and activities: My Aunt Julia had very little experience of life. Life has a way of changing the best of plans. For some people, religion gives life a meaning.daily/everyday life the frustrations and disappointments of everyday life I try to see the funny side of life.7time when something exists/works [countable usually singular] a)the period of time during which something happens or existslife of The issues will not be resolved during the life of the present parliament.start/begin/come to life as something The building began life as a monastery. b)the period of time during which something is still good enough to uselife of What’s the average life of a passenger aircraft? Careful use can extend the life of your washing machine. → shelf life8living things [uncountable] a)the quality of being alive that people, animals, plants etc have and that objects and dead things do not have: Ben felt her neck for a pulse or any other sign of life. In the springtime, everything comes to life again. b)living things, such as people, animals, or plants: Is there life on other planets?human/animal/plant/bird etc life The island is rich in bird life. → wildlife9be somebody’s (whole) life to be the most important thing or person to someone: Music is Laura’s whole life.10life and death (also life or death) used for emphasizing that a situation, decision etc is extremely urgent and important, especially because someone is at risk of dying: Don’t call me unless it’s a matter of life and death. a life or death decision A doctor’s job involves life and death situations.11game [countable] a chance in a game, especially a computer game, in which you can be defeated or do something wrong and can still continue playing: He’s up to level five and still has three lives left.12activity [uncountable] activity or movement: The house was quiet and there was no sign of life. She was always so cheerful and full of life.13interest/excitement [uncountable] a quality of being interesting or exciting: Try to put some life into your writing. The game really came to life after a magnificent goal from Rooney. A gifted teacher can really bring literature to life for his or her students.14come to life/roar into life/splutter into life etc to suddenly start working: Finally the car spluttered into life.15make life difficult/easier etc to make it difficult, easier etc to do something: Surely computers are supposed to make life easier, not more complicated!life for Why make life difficult for yourself?16the life and soul of the party British English, the life of the party American English someone who enjoys social occasions and is fun and exciting to be with17life and limb formal your life and physical health – used especially when this is threatened in some way: She risks life and limb every day in her job as an undercover investigator.18 get a life! spoken used to tell someone that you think they are boring and should find more exciting things to do: You guys should just stop moaning and get a life!19that’s life (also such is life) spoken used to say that something is disappointing but you have to accept it: Oh well, that’s life!20life’s a bitch spoken not polite used to say that bad things happen in life21this is the life spoken used when you are relaxing and doing something you enjoy: Ah, this is the life! Lying on the beach, sipping cool drinks.22the shock/surprise/game etc of somebody’s life the biggest shock or surprise, the best game etc that someone has ever had: I had the surprise of my life when I saw John standing there. → have the time of your life at time1(41)23how’s life? spoken used to ask someone if they are well, what they have been doing etc: Hi Bob! How’s life? How’s life been with you?24life goes on spoken used to say that you must continue to live a normal life even when something sad or disappointing has happened: We both miss him, but life goes on.25a life of its own a)if something has a life of its own, it seems to move or work by itself: The ball seemed to have acquired a life of its own. b)if something has a life of its own, it exists and develops without depending on other things: Slowly but surely, the project is taking on a life of its own.26cannot for the life of me spoken used to say that you cannot remember or understand something even when you try hard: I couldn’t for the life of me remember his name.27life’s too short spoken used to say that you should not waste time doing something or worrying about something: Forget about it. Life’s too short.life for Life’s too short for moping about.life’s too short to do something Life’s too short to bear grudges.28not on your life spoken used as a reply to a question or suggestion to say that you definitely will not do something: ‘Are you going to go and work for him then?’ ‘Not on your life!’29the woman/man/girl etc in your life the woman or man you are married to or are having a relationship with – used especially in advertisements: This is the ideal gift for the man in your life.30prison [uncountable] (also life imprisonment) the punishment of being put in prison for the rest of your lifebe sentenced to/get/be given life He was sentenced to life for the murder. I think she should get life. → life sentence, lifer31art [uncountable] when you paint, draw etc something you are looking at, especially a person or animal: She’s taking classes in life drawing. → still life32frighten/scare the life out of somebody informal to make someone feel very frightened: Don’t do that! You scared the life out of me!33there’s life in the old dog yet spoken used to say that although someone or something is old, they are still able to do something – used humorously34live/lead/have the life of Riley informal to have a very easy and comfortable life and not have to work hard: He spends all day lounging by the pool and living the life of Riley.35book/film [uncountable] the story of someone’s life SYN biography: Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’36the next life (also the life to come, life after death) the time after death, in which some people believe life continues in another form: She expects to meet her dead husband in the next life. → as large as life at large1(7), → change of life, → for dear life at dear2(6), → double life, → high life at high1(22), → a new lease of life at lease1(2), → quality of life at quality1(5), → real life at real1(3), real-life, → true to life at true1(9), → walk of lifeCOLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2verbssave somebody’s life· The money you give will save the life of a child.risk your life· He risked his life to help Jews during the Second World War.lose your life (=die)· Hundreds of people lost their lives on the first day of the fighting.take a/somebody’s life (=kill someone)· All cultures consider it wrong to take a life for no reason.take your own life (=kill yourself)· He was depressed and decided to take his own life.claim the life of somebody (=kill someone – used of a thing)· The disease claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population.cost lives/cost somebody their life (=result in deaths/in someone’s death)· That decision may have cost him his life.give your life/lay down your life (=die in order to save other people, or because of a strong belief)· These men gave their lives during the war to keep us free.endanger the life of somebody· They wanted to capture the gunman without endangering the lives of his hostages.spare somebody’s life (=not kill someone, when you could kill them)· She begged him to spare the life of her son.be fighting for your life (=be so ill or injured that you might die)· One badly burned man was fighting for his life in hospital.cling to life (=try to stay alive, even though you are very ill or injured)· She clung to life, despite the pain.phrasesowe your life to somebody (=be still alive because of someone’s actions)· The victim said he owed his life to the stranger who helped him.take your life in your hands (=put yourself in a dangerous situation)· Just crossing this road is taking your life in your hands.COMMON ERRORS ► Don’t say ‘the cost of life’. Say the cost of living.
WORD ORIGINlife
Origin:
Old English lifEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Life can be hard sometimes.
- Life in L.A. is exciting.
- A Life of Christopher Columbus
- a baby's first moments of life
- An 18-year-old San Jose man clung to life late Wednesday after being shot in the head during a robbery.
- At least Aunt Edith had a happy life.
- Boswell's Life of Sanuel Johnson was published in 1791.
- By our actions today, we can improve the quality of life for future generations.
- Cindy still doesn't know much about life.
- Dad spent his life building up this business.
- Debbie has a really busy life, doesn't she?
- Do you believe in life after death?
- Do you think there is life on other planets?
- Having a baby completely changes your life.
- He knew very little about his mother's early life in Africa.
- He left school at 15, quickly turning to a life of crime.
- How would you like to spend your life? What kind of work would you like to do?
- I'm hoping to win the lottery and live a life of luxury!
- Immigrating to the UK was their only chance for a better life.
- Lack of calcium can lead to bone disease in later life.
- All your life every man has wanted to be a cowboy.
- But she knew Petey was too old for dishonest leaps between the movies and real life.
- Every opportunity to maximise the differences between school and college life was seized.
- I can not say that Dickie ever talked to me about his most personal life.
- Mars and Venus this weekend means your love life will start to sparkle.
- This has had a huge effect on children's lives.
- We are having a wonderful life, without you.
Longman Language Activatorthe time when someone is alive
the time when someone is alive: the happiest/saddest/worst etc day of your life: · The day our daughter was born was the happiest day of my life.the rest of somebody's life: · Sutcliffe was sent to jail for the rest of his life.spend your life: · Dad spent his life building up this business.· How would you like to spend your life? What kind of work would you like to do?for life (=for the rest of your life): · The accident left him crippled for life.somebody's early life (=when someone was young): · He knew very little about his mother's early life in Africa.somebody's adult life: · The first half of my adult life was spent in jail.in later life (=when you are old): · Lack of calcium can lead to bone disease in later life.
the time when someone is alive - use this when you are talking about how long someone lived and what happened in their life: in/during somebody's lifetime: · He suffered a lot of pain in his short lifetime.· During Dickinson's lifetime, only a few of her works were actually published.lifetime of: · The National Medal of Arts award is meant to honor a lifetime of achievement.last a lifetime (=last as long as someone lives): · A good tool should last a lifetime.once-in-a-lifetime chance/opportunity (=a chance or opportunity that will only happen once in a person's lifetime): · The visit to Tibet was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
someone's life, especially a particular period of their life: somebody's student days/school days: · I asked Debbie about her student days and she just laughed. "I dropped out of school the day I turned 16," she said.somebody's younger days: · In her younger days, she was quite a fancy dresser.somebody's early days (=the time when someone has just started something, especially a job): · The play is based on the early days of cabaret singer Rosie Kincaid.the rest of your days (=the rest of your life): · Evelyn spent the rest of her days quietly in the country until her death in 1963.end your days (=spend the last part of your life doing something): · She ended her days in poverty.somebody's days as/with something (=a period of time in someone's life when they were doing a particular job or activity): · Michael knew Annette during her days as an off-Broadway actress.· I first became a fan of guitarist Cory Weldon during his days with the Leeds band, Sinister Minister.
the length of time that a person or animal usually lives: normal/natural/average lifespan: · The natural lifespan of a pig is 10-12 years.short/long lifespan: · Saltwater fish have a shorter lifespan in the aquarium.somebody's lifespan: · Authorities estimate that smoking trims between 12 and 15 years off a person's lifespan.
the length of time that a person or animal is expected to live: · Women have a longer life expectancy than men.low/high life expectancy (=a short or long life): · Life expectancy was much lower then than it is now.average life expectancy: · At the beginning of the century, the average life expectancy for Americans was less than 50 years.have a life expectancy of 64/78 etc years (=be expected to live until you are 64/78 etc): · British males now have a life expectancy of around 77 years.
all the different stages in development that an animal or plant has in the time that it is alive: · Despite decades of study, the life cycle of the tiny shellfish, krill, is still something of a mystery.
the kind of life that someone has the kind of life that someone has: · Having a baby completely changes your life.a happy/busy/exciting etc life: · Debbie has a really busy life, doesn't she?· They enjoyed a full and happy life together until his death in June l999.lead a happy/quiet/exciting etc life: · We've led a very quiet life since Ralph retired.quality of life (=the level of health, comfort and pleasure in someone's life): · By our actions today, we can improve the quality of life for future generations.a better life: · Immigrating to the UK was their only chance for a better life.a life of crime (=when you make money by committing crimes instead of having a normal job): · He left school at 15, quickly turning to a life of crime.
the life that someone has, especially when they have difficult or bad experiences: a lonely/miserable/unhappy etc existence: · Elena faced a lonely existence in the big city.lead a miserable/lonely etc existence (=have a particular existence): · The workers lived a miserable existence and were treated like serfs.
the way someone lives and behaves, and the type of things they buy, eat etc: a healthy lifestyle: · You really need to think about leading a healthier lifestyle.lavish/luxurious lifestyle (=the lifestyle of someone who is very rich): · Hurst's lavish lifestyle is the stuff of legend.extravagant lifestyle (=a lifestyle that shows people how rich you are): · Even when in debt, he continued to enjoy an extravagant lifestyle.
the way in which a person or group of people lives, and the type of things they usually do: somebody's way of life: · "How can we abandon our way of life?" asked the old sheep herder. "It's all we know."become a way of life: · Casual dress has become a way of life in corporate Britain.the British/German/American etc way of life: · Shopping is an important part of the American way of life.
to live your life in a particular way: · Tom and Linda both earn good salaries -- they live well and have a nice home.· One can live cheaply in London, although it's not easy.
continuing for all of someone's life for the whole of your life: · I've known Jenny all my life.· Despite having worked hard all his life, Jimmy had saved very little for retirement.
if something is for life , it will continue and not change for the rest of your life: · There's no such thing as a job for life these days.· As far as I'm concerned, when you get married it's for life.
continuing for all of your life - use this about beliefs, feelings, or relationships that last for the whole of your life: lifelong supporter: · My father was a lifelong supporter of the Democrats.lifelong ambition (=something that you have always wanted to do): · It was her lifelong ambition to write a best-selling novel.lifelong friends (=friends for life): · The two remained lifelong friends.
when what really happens is different from stories, films etc · Does Santa Claus really exist?· There are many stories which describe wolves as dangerous, blood-thirsty animals, but actually they prefer to avoid human beings.
in the world in which people really live, not in the world which exists in people's imagination: · Romances of that kind don't happen in the real world.· In the real world no one actually dies of a broken heart, but it happens in operas all the time.· His sudden success is something you never really expect to happen in the real world.
in real life , as opposed to what happens in films or stories: · In real life there's no magic wand to make all our problems disappear.· On TV he plays a teenager, but in real life he's married with two children.
the time when someone is an adult the part of someone's life when they are an adult: · He has spent most of his adult life in the States.
the time when someone is an adult - use this especially to talk about people reaching this time: · Children with the disease have little chance of surviving to adulthood.reach adulthood: · Nowadays young people want to leave home as soon as they reach adulthood.
if a person, animal, or plant reaches maturity , they have grown or developed completely: reach maturity: · The plant reaches maturity after two years.· Sharks take 10 years to reach maturity.
something that is alive a human, animal, plant, or anything that is alive: · An ocean is full of living things.· The tree, at 368 feet, is considered the world's tallest living thing.· Ecology is the study of how living things relate to their environment.
a living thing or one type of living thing - used in scientific or technical contexts: · Hobart is convinced that there are life forms on other planets.· Some scientists estimate that at least one third of the life forms that exist in deep oceans have not yet been discovered.· strange life forms in the Galapagos Islands
a living thing, especially an extremely small one - used in scientific and technical contexts: · Food poisoning is caused by a bacterial organism.living organism: · Genetic engineers manipulate living organisms such as cells or bacteria to create products which fight disease.
any living things, for example people, animals, plants, or all of these things together: · Oxygen is necessary to sustain life on Earth.· The new evidence seemed to indicate that life existed on Mars billions of years ago.animal/plant life (=all the animals or plants in a place): · Many species of plant life continue to be eradicated in South American rain forests.
animals and plants growing in natural conditions: · The Sea of Cortez is rich with wildlife.· The organization was set up to protect wildlife across Europe.
not dead not dead: still alive: · Are all your grandparents still alive?keep somebody alive (=to prevent someone from dying by giving them food, medicine etc): · Paramedics fought for an hour by the roadside to keep him alive.barely alive: · The police found them lying on the kitchen floor. Mr Wilkins was dead and his wife was barely alive.alive and well (=alive and not injured or ill): · The children were found alive and well after being missing for several days.see somebody alive: · She was the last person to see him alive.
still living now: · A brother in Australia is Mary's only living relative.greatest living poet/composer/painter etc: · Seamus Heaney is Ireland's greatest living poet.
formal something that is animate is alive and able to move, and is therefore not an object: animate objects: · At this age, children are still unable to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects.
the fact or state of being alive: · Do you believe in life after death?· Unfortunately it's usually the worst experiences that remind us how precious life is.fight/struggle for life: · She sat beside the hospital bed, holding his hand as he struggled for life.cling to life (=to struggle to stay alive): · An 18-year-old San José man clung to life late Wednesday after being shot in the head during a robbery.
when something will always happen or always continue · I'll always remember the day we first met.· She said she would always love him.
if something lasts or continues forever , it remains or continues for all future time: · I'd like to stay here forever.· The memory of that awful day is forever etched in my mind.
a word meaning forever, for a very long time, or for the rest of your life - use this especially to talk about changes that you expect to last forever: · The accident has left Hanson permanently disabled.· Thirteen students were permanently expelled from the school.
for all future time - used especially by children or in children's stories when someone feels extremely happy: · It was a beautiful day, and Ellie wanted it to go on for ever and ever.
if someone leaves, comes back etc for good , they leave or come back permanently: · The injury may keep him out of football for good.· I'd like to stay in Colorado for good.
spoken informal if you have something for keeps , you have it forever: · He's given it to me for keeps.
formal forever, used especially when saying that something will last or be remembered forever because it is very good, special etc: · The actions of those who died in the Great War will be remembered for all time.
for the rest of your life: · There's no such thing as a job for life any more.scarred/maimed/crippled/blind etc for life: · The abuse left him scarred for life.
for the rest of your life - used especially in stories, plays etc: · You will regret this until your dying day.· I will remember your kindness to my dying day.
to put someone else in a dangerous situation formal: endanger someone's life/health/safety etc to put someone in a dangerous situation that would badly affect their health, safety etc: · Smoking during pregnancy endangers your baby's health.· The city authorities complained that low-flying aircraft were endangering public safety.· Any raid or rescue operation would endanger the lives of the hostages.
to put someone in a dangerous situation in which they could be killed, especially by not obeying safety rules: · If an ambulance crew goes on strike, it is putting people's lives at risk.· By not dealing with the problem of radioactive waste, we are putting the lives of future generations at risk.
to do something that may hurt or kill you to do something very dangerous, especially in order to help someone, when you know that you may get killed because of your action: · Every day firefighters risk their lives in the course of their duty.risk your life to do something: · She risked her life to save the drowning child.
if you do something at your own risk , you must accept that it is dangerous and that it is your own fault if you are injured or killed: · Anyone who swims in this part of the river does it at their own risk.
informal to do something very dangerous in order to help someone - use this especially when you think the action is unnecessary: · Don't do it. It's not worth risking your neck.risk your neck to do something: · "Come back!" Ned shouted. "You can't risk your neck to save a dog!"
to do something that could have a very dangerous or harmful result: · Failure to stick to the safety rules is simply playing with fire.· These men are criminals. If you get involved with them, you'll be playing with fire.
informal to put yourself in a situation in which you may get killed, especially when it is a situation which you cannot control: · The teenager took his life in his hands in trying to avoid being caught by police.· You'll be taking your life in your hands if you let Eric drive you home!
to deliberately do something that is so dangerous that you may easily get killed, especially when you do it for excitement: · When young people experiment with drugs, they're dicing with death.
formal if you warn someone that they do something at their peril , you mean that it would be very dangerous for them to do it: · Any climber who neglects these simple precautions does so at their peril.· Ignore this warning at your peril.
to die in an accident, war, fight etc · The firefighters died when the warehouse floor collapsed.die/be killed in an accident/explosion/the war etc · Two people were killed and four injured in a gas explosion this morning.die/be killed in action (=be killed in a war) · His brother was killed in action in Vietnam.
: starve/freeze/bleed etc to death to die because of having no food, being too cold, losing blood etc: · The baby starved to death.· He bled to death after being stabbed repeatedly.
to be killed in a terrible event - used especially in news reports and descriptions of past events: · Hundreds of people lost their lives when the ship overturned in a storm.· Supporters continue to visit the site where Colosio lost his life to an assassin's bullet.
British informal to die in a violent or unpleasant way - use this especially when you think the person who died deserved this: · At the end of the film the prisoners are rescued, and the pirates come to a sticky end.
to die in a terrible event - used especially in literature and news reports: · Everyone aboard the ship perished when it sank off the coast of Maine.· Five children perished before firefighters could put out the blaze.
if a military force suffers heavy losses , a very large number of its soldiers die while fighting: · US forces withdrew after suffering heavy losses.· The troops suffered heavy losses fighting their way through the Italian countryside.
when someone dies · After her husband's death, she moved back to California.· The bomb caused at least one death, and several serious injuries.death from · The number of deaths from AIDS is still increasing in many parts of the world.the death of somebody formal · A comet appeared at the time of the death of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.the death toll (=the number of deaths in one terrible event) · The latest death toll in the Turkish earthquake is over 2000.accidental death (=death resulting from an accident - used in official contexts) · The policy provides full insurance in the case of accidental death.untimely death (=death that comes earlier than is normally expected) · Basquiat's work had become well known even before his untimely death at age 27.on somebody's death (=when they die) · Catherine will inherit a large sum of money on her father's death.
the number of people who have died in accidents or from illnesses, especially when this is being calculated officially: · A fifth of all road fatalities are caused by people not wearing seatbelts.· An attack on the city would cause tens of thousands of civilian fatalities.
formal the deaths of people in an accident or a war: · The plane managed to crash-land on St. Lawrence Island with no loss of life.· The Bishop condemned what he called "this futile and tragic loss of life".
to die for your country or for something you believe in · These brave men were ready to fight and die for their country.· How many of you would be willing to die for your religion?
formal to die in order to save someone, or because of something that you believe in: · We want to pay special tribute to the men and women who have given their lives in service of their country.give your life/lay down your life for: · He was ready to lay down his life for his comrades.
someone who is killed because of their religious or political beliefs, and becomes very famous because of this: · The early Christian martyrs were killed by the thousands.make somebody a martyr/make a martyr out of somebody (=make people think someone is a martyr): · His death in police hands made him a martyr among the people.
someone who attacks and kills people with a bomb etc even though they know they will die as well: · FBI agents found the passport of one of the suicide bombers among the wreckage.· Suicide pilots are brainwashed into believing they will go straight to paradise when they die.
happy and energetic cheerful and active: · She was a lively and adventurous girl - not one for a quiet life.· As a speaker, he was articulate, lively, and funny.
a woman or girl who is vivacious has a lot of energy and a happy and attractive manner: · Laura was an all-American type -- cute, blonde, vivacious.· He married a vivacious girl called Sarah who he met at university.
full of interest and energy, especially when talking to someone: · Mike tends to be more animated in the presence of women.become animated: · As the evening went on she became quite animated, talking and laughing with the other girls.
to feel happy and lively, and to show this by the way you behave: · Stephen was a normal boy of seven, full of life and fun.· Before the accident he had been a cheerful, confident man, full of life.
informal to feel happy, energetic, and eager, and to show this by the way you behave: · I wish I was one of those people who are full of beans first thing in the morning.· You'd never think she'd been ill -- she came bouncing in this morning, full of beans.
to feel full of energy, happy, and free: · After the divorce she felt really alive for the first time in her life.· I only feel truly alive when I'm outside, in the open air.
to enjoy doing something to get pleasure from doing something: · Did you enjoy the party?enjoy doing something: · My father always enjoyed playing golf at weekends.enjoy yourself (=do things that make you feel happy): · The park was full of people enjoying themselves in the sunshine.thoroughly/greatly enjoy: · Thanks for a lovely evening. I thoroughly enjoyed it.· Most of the students said that they had really enjoyed the day out.enjoy every minute/moment of something: · It was a wonderful vacation - we enjoyed every minute of it.enjoy something immensely especially British: · Parts of the play were extremely funny. I enjoyed it immensely.
to enjoy doing something, especially something that you do regularly or for a long time: · I don't like meetings, especially if they go on for too long.like doing something: · We liked living abroad. It was a wonderful experience.like to do something (=do something often or regularly because you enjoy it): · Nick likes to relax and read a book in the evenings.
especially spoken to enjoy doing something very much and get a lot of pleasure out of it: · Cassie works in the theatre, and she really loves it.love doing something: · Ben loves swimming, playing tennis, those kinds of thing.love to do something (=do something often or regularly because you enjoy it a lot): · She loved to sit in the park and feed the ducks.
especially spoken to enjoy yourself very much when you are with other people: · We had a great time last night - you should have come.· Did you have a good time at the beach?have a good/great etc time doing something: · The kids all had a wonderful time meeting up at each other's houses.
informal to enjoy yourself very much by going out a lot and spending a lot of money on social activities: · Pat spent most of his time at college going to parties and living it up.· I had saved about two thousand dollars, so I decided to whoop it up in Vegas before going home.
to enjoy yourself with other people, for example by relaxing, talking, or laughing with them: · I was having so much fun I forgot how late it was.have fun doing something: · We had fun trying to guess who Mike's new girlfriend was.
especially American, informal to have a very good time: · We went down to the Gulf Coast of Florida for spring break - we had a blast!
informal to enjoy yourself very much: · "Your vacation sounds fantastic.'' "We had the time of our lives!''have the time of your life/have a whale of a time doing something: · Alan was having the time of his life, playing to an admiring audience.· The kids all had a whale of a time, in and out of the pool all day.
to enjoy doing or seeing something: · I get a real kick out of watching my son learning to speak.· Jody got a kick out of trying some of the new video games.
unable to escape · Have you ever bought any of their products?· When he left, Bartlett didn't know if he'd ever see Alaska again.· I don't think I'll ever get used to that feeling of excitement before a show.ever ... (before) · Have you ever been on a ship like this before?best/biggest/worst ever etc · That was the biggest mistake I ever made.more/better/worse etc than ever (before) · Within a few years of the two World Wars, the standard of living of Western European countries was higher than ever before.
used especially in formal questions and statements: · "Of course, no one should have to suffer at any time," said the general gruffly, "but things are different in times of war."· Have you at any time met with the defendant?at any time in history/in our existence etc: · There are more single parents today than at any time in history.
at any time in the past, since humans have kept records of events: · Robinson has won more matches than any coach in history.· His arrest ended the longest manhunt in history.· Spielberg then went on to direct 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', which became one of the highest earning films in history.· It was the first attempt in history to assemble representatives of all the major regions.
at any time during your life: · I've never owned a gun in my life.· Susan felt she had never worked so hard in her life as she did that day.· He knew that this was one of the saddest things he'd ever have to do in his life.· For the first time in his life, Yossarian prayed.
at any time in history or in someone's life: · Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" is one of the best-selling rock albums of all time.· My favourite joke of all time is the one about the donkey who goes to the doctor and says ...· a list of the 100 Most Influential Women of All Time
someone or something that you care a lot about if something is important to you, you care a lot about it, and it has an important influence on the way you think and behave: · Which is more important to you - your family or your career?be important to somebody: · While I was a student, my parents' support and encouragement were very important to me.the important thing (=the only important thing): · At least the children are safe - that's the important thing.
if you care about something or someone, you think they are important and you pay attention to them, consider their feelings etc: · Thousands are dying from disease and starvation and yet no one seems to care.care about: · Of course I care about the homeless and the unemployed, but what can I do?care what/who etc: · We make a range of natural, additive-free foods for people who really care what they eat.
especially spoken if someone or something means a lot to you, you care about them or think about them a lot, and your happiness depends on them: · You mustn't discourage her - this job means a lot to her.mean everything to somebody (=to be more important than anything else): · Karen trained day and night - winning the gold medal meant everything to her.
if something or someone is your whole life , they are so important to you that life would seem to have no meaning without them and you would be very unhappy: · I could never consider another career -- making films is my whole life.· Paul loves you very much. You are his whole life.
if you live for something or someone, they are the most important or enjoyable thing in your life: · Margot lived for ballet and was completely dedicated.· Bob lives for just two things -- his daughters and his music.
especially British if someone is or means (all) the world to you, they are more important to you than anyone else because you love them so much: · My son means all the world to me. If anything happened to him I'd never forgive myself.
the thing that someone considers to be the most important thing in their life - use this when you think that they are wrong to think that it is the most important thing: · Going to university isn't the be all and end all, you know.
to make something more interesting · Teachers are always trying to find new ways of making their lessons more interesting.· Sharing a house makes life much more interesting.
also make something come alive to make something much more interesting, especially by making it seem more lively or real: · Campbell made the match come to life when he scored with a header in the 67th minute.· Cagney makes the character come alive through a combination of his looks and his skills as an actor.
also enliven formal to make something that is a little boring or ordinary become more interesting or exciting: liven something up: · I wish Leo would come - he would liven the party up.· Bob tried to liven things up by telling some of his jokes.liven up something: · Tropical fruit such as mangoes and kiwis can help to liven up salad.
to make something seem more interesting and exciting by adding things to it that are colourful, modern etc: jazz up something: · You can easily jazz up a plain outfit with some bright, colourful accessories.· The company's first product, WebSuite, allowed anyone with basic computer skills to jazz up a Web site.jazz something up: · They've really jazzed it up in here but I bet the food's still the same.
to make something more interesting by adding something different or unusual: · Evergreen plants with interesting leaves, berries or flowers add variety to a window box throughout the year.add variety to: · Make sure you add variety to your child's diet with plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
to kill yourself · He killed himself by jumping under a train.· She tried to kill herself when news of the scandal leaked out.· You'll kill yourself if you go on drinking like that.
when someone deliberately kills himself or herself: · Police are treating the man's death as suicide.· There is grave concern about the number of teenage suicides recorded last year.commit suicide: · Barry threatened to commit suicide if she refused to marry him.suicide attempt: · Stephen required hospital treatment after his suicide attempt.
formal to kill yourself: · Many religions consider that it is a sin to take your own life.· Desperately frustrated and alone, she could see no way out except to take her own life.
someone who is suicidal is likely to kill themselves because they are extremely unhappy: · The thought of having to stay in the house all day made me feel almost suicidal.suicidal tendencies (=behaviour that shows you may try to kill yourself): · Had the prisoner previously displayed suicidal tendencies?
informal if you want to end it all , you want to kill yourself because you are extremely unhappy, lonely etc - used especially in stories: · Sometimes I feel so low I just feel like ending it all.
later than usual · The library stays open late on Fridays.be late · The harvest was late this year because of the bad weather.work late (=stay at work till later than usual) · I'm afraid I'll have to work late again tomorrow.get up late · It's really nice to get up late on Saturday mornings.a late breakfast/lunch etc · "Where's Bill?" "He's having a late lunch."
if you do something late in life , you do it when you are older than the age at which people usually do it: · Greg got married late in life.· Carter and Reagan had come into politics relatively late in life.
someone you love the people you love, especially the members of your family: · Many prisoners find it difficult being separated from their loved ones.· They are fighting to protect their loved ones from oppression and violence.
your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, or wife - used especially in advertisements or sayings: · Flowers are the perfect gift for the one you love.· You know what they say: you always hurt the one you love.
the person who you have loved the most in your life: · Claude has always been the love of her life.· He knew as soon as he met her that Sumana would be the love of his life.
someone who was your girlfriend or boyfriend in the past, especially someone that you still like: · I met up with an old flame, and we sat and chatted for a while.
a lucky person if you are lucky , good things happen to you and things go well for you, because you have good luck and not because of hard work, careful planning etc: · Isn't she lucky - she can eat what she wants and she never gets fat.· There are monkeys and zebra, and if you're lucky you might see a lion.lucky to do something: · I'm lucky to live in a nice house and be married to such a nice man.lucky (that): · Arthur left the front door unlocked - we're lucky that nothing was stolen.lucky with: · Apart from the sprained ankle, I've been very lucky with injuries (=I haven't had many).think/count yourself lucky (=used to say that someone should consider themselves lucky): · He should count himself lucky not to have been blamed for the whole fiasco.
lucky, especially when you are luckier than other people. Fortunate is more formal than lucky: · David managed to escape, but the others were not so fortunate.fortunate to do something: · I am fortunate to work in a school where all the children are extremely motivated.
British informal use this about someone who is lucky to be able to do something, when you are jealous because you would like to do it: · That jammy devil Steve has got out of the washing up again.
to be lucky, especially because you get the thing that you wanted although you did not really expect to get it: · You're in luck, there are still a few tickets left.· If you like Californian wine you could be in luck - we are giving away 100 bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon.
you say some people have all the luck when you are talking about someone who is always very lucky, especially when you are jealous of their good luck: · It costs a fortune to buy a Porsche - some people have all the luck.
to be lucky all the time, so that although you are often in dangerous situations, it seems that nothing can harm you: · By his own admission he had led a charmed life. He had survived a train crash when he was seventeen.
British you say it's all right for some when you think someone else is lucky because they are enjoying themselves, having an easy life etc and you are jealous of them: · You're going to Hawaii? It's all right for some!· It's all right for some. I've got to stay in and work this evening.
to be lucky because you have the chance to do something you wanted to do or something that most other people do not have the chance to do: · I went along to the audition with everyone else, and was lucky enough to get the part.· In 1957 I had the good fortune to be invited on a lecture tour of Switzerland.
to be successful or get into a good situation as a result of good luck, especially after you have been experiencing difficulty: · Nathan had a series of jobs where he wasn't happy, but this time he's really fallen on his feet.· Don't worry about Nina -- she always falls on her feet.
to be lucky because you are in a particular place when something good is offered or becomes available: · "You did well to get that contract.'' "Not really, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.''· Being a successful news photographer is all about being in the right place at the right time.
American informal an expression meaning to be very lucky on a particular occasion: · I didn't have any idea what I was doing, but I lucked out and wound up with a good job.
when someone causes problems, especially deliberately to cause a problem, even if you do not intend to: · After a while, John started causing problems in class.· They have two good running backs who can cause problems for our team's defense.· A popular independent candidate could create problems for the Democrats by taking away votes.
to deliberately cause problems, especially by starting arguments or fights: · Don't give him another drink, or he'll start causing trouble.· Some of the demonstrators were determined to make trouble, whatever the police did.· It's not just gang members that cause trouble, it's middle- and upper-class kids too.
to deliberately cause problems and make it difficult for someone to do something, for example in order to punish them or persuade them to do something: · They can't actually stop us, but they could make life difficult.make life difficult for: · Some employers have made life difficult for employees who need time off for extended illnesses.
informal to deliberately treat someone badly and cause trouble for them, for example by criticizing them, complaining, or asking them a lot of difficult questions: · When I first came here everyone gave me a really hard time, because I was the first woman to run a department.give sb a hard time about: · My mother gave me a really hard time about Freddy. She couldn't stand him.
informal to cause problems by making changes in a situation that everyone else thinks is satisfactory: · We have a pretty good life here. Why rock the boat?· Judge Thurgood Marshall never hesitated to rock the boat, from the beginning of his long legal career.· A lot of people have a don't-rock-the boat mentality that stops them from complaining.
when a fact or situation causes problems to cause a problem that has to be dealt with: · You would be the only woman on a staff of over thirty men, which could create problems.· Both parents and teachers are worried about the problems posed by drugs.cause/create/pose a problem for: · Rebecca was frequently late for work, which caused problems for her colleagues.· Rising inflation could pose a major problem for the government.
to cause problems for someone and make it difficult or inconvenient for them to do what they want to do: · Petty arguments between staff have made the manager's life difficult.make life difficult for: · The rail strikes are making life increasingly difficult for people who have to travel into London every day.
if an activity or a plan presents a problem , there is a problem connected with it that has to be dealt with: · Constructing a highway in this area would present enormous difficulties.present a problem/difficulty for: · Live television programmes present special problems for the broadcaster.present somebody with a problem/difficulty: · Britain's relationship with other members of the European Union presents Blair with problems, just as it did for the Tories.
something that is troublesome keeps causing problems over a period of time: · The infection can be particularly troublesome if it affects the lungs or throat.· The plant is regarded as a troublesome weed in rice fields.
informal to cause problems over a period of time that are difficult to deal with: · Messy walkways and picnic tables are just some of the headaches caused by the hundreds of ducks that gather by the lake.be a headache for: · Censorship is always a constant headache for newspapers in the republic.give somebody a headache: · The scandal has given the minister a very public headache.
if difficulties, illnesses, doubts, problems etc plague someone, there are a lot of them and they keep causing trouble for a long time: · Social problems plague these low-income communities.· The area is plagued by soil erosion and flooding.
if a problem or bad luck dogs someone or something, it keeps causing trouble for a long time and prevents them from succeeding: · The team has been dogged by injury all season.· Zambia had none of the heritage of war and violence that dogged, say, Kenya or Zimbabwe.
when pictures, films etc make things seem real use this about books, pictures, and films that show or describe things as they really are: · The book includes some very realistic descriptions of life during the war.· A lot of people like paintings to look realistic.· Planning your dream home? You can build a more realistic model with our new 3-D kit.
use this about pictures and models that look very like the real person or thing: · Outside the museum is a huge, lifelike model of a dinosaur.· The directors wanted the computer-generated images to look as lifelike as possible.
the quality in a painting, film, story etc that makes it seem real and believable: · The battle scenes are described with extraordinary realism.· His style combines plain language and gritty realism.
a film, play, story etc that is true to life , shows or describes things as they really are: · It's a great story, but not always true to life.· The film gives us a true to life picture of 1920s Chicago.
vivid descriptions, memories, dreams etc are so clear that they seem real: · The book gives a vivid account of the author's journey through northern Africa.· I loved listening to his vivid descriptions of life in Italy.· One of my most vivid memories is of my first day at school.· The drug can make people suffer hallucinations and vivid nightmares.
to spend a lot of money · You don't have to spend a lot to be fashionable -- you just need a sense of style.spend a lot on · They must have spent a lot on their new kitchen. It's made of solid oakspend a lot of money · In recent years the company has spent a lot of money on new technology.
to spend very large amounts of money on something important, even if it costs you more than you can afford: · The wedding was wonderful. Your parents obviously went to great expense.go to great expense to do something: · Please let us have your comments on the plans for the new offices -- we're going to great expense to get everything just right.
to spend as much money as is necessary to get what you want or make something successful, without worrying about the cost: · The organizers were told to spare no expense - this was going to be the biggest show on Earth.no expense spared: · "Go out and buy whatever you want," he said, "no expense spared!"
spoken informal to have to spend more money on something than you think is fair or reasonable: · No, we can't afford to go to the bowling alley - I've forked out enough already today.shell out #50/$100 etc: · Insurance companies are having to shell out millions of pounds to the victims of the floods.shell out/fork out on: · I'm not shelling out any more money on this old car. It's not worth it!shell out/fork out for: · I failed my driving test and Dad said that he wasn't forking out for any more lessons for me.
informal to spend a lot of money and buy a lot of things in a short time for enjoyment, especially when other people think this is stupid or a waste of money: · Jilly and I decided to cheer ourselves up and go on a spending spree.· You haven't been on another spending spree, have you? What did you buy this time?
use this to say that you do not care how much money you spend on something even if it is a lot: · Simon always ordered the best. It was obvious that money was no object.money no object: · Choose whatever outfit you want - money no object!
to enjoy yourself by going out often and spending a lot of money, especially with rich or important people: · For several years they lived the high life with Hollywood stars and celebrities.· You've been living the high life recently, haven't you! You're always going out to clubs and fancy restaurants.
the story of a real person's life a book that is the story of a famous person's life: · She is the author of several books, including a biography of the artist Salvador Dali.· Isaac Deutscher's outstanding biographies of Stalin and Trotsky
the story of a famous person's life , as described in a book, or shown in paintings or a film: · Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson was published in 1791.· The lower series of frescoes describe the life of Saint Francis of Assisi.
an account, especially a spoken account, of the main events that have happened in someone's life: · When you meet someone for the first time, they don't want your entire life story in detail.· The newspaper has been running his life story for the past two weeks.
the story of your own life the story of your own life, which you have written yourself: · In his autobiography he described his life as an explorer in some of the remotest parts of the earth.· Her autobiography will be published next month, and will be a guaranteed bestseller.
the story of your own life which you have written yourself, especially your involvement in important political or military events: · In his memoirs he gives a new insight into several political scandals of the pre-war years.· The duke's memoirs will be serialised in the Sunday Times.
a spoken account of the main events that have happened in your life, especially if they are boring or unpleasant: tell somebody the story of your life: · He told me the story of his life right from the early days in a poor part of Washington.· She began to tell him the story of her life, a long catalogue of disappointment and gloom.
what you say when you thank someone say this when you want to thank someone politely: · "Would you like to come to dinner with us on Sunday?" "Thank you, I'd love to."thank you for: · Thank you for a splendid evening. I really enjoyed myself.· Thank you for letting me stay.thank you very much: · It's lovely. Thank you very much.
spoken use this to thank someone for something they have just done or given you: · "Here's your coffee." "Thanks, Mom."thanks for: · Thanks for coming. Hope we see you again next year.thanks to somebody (=used in speeches): · Thanks to everyone for all the cards and flowers. They really cheered me up.thanks a lot/a million: · "Here, let me help you." "Thanks a lot. That's great."
British informal spoken say this when you want to thank someone for something they have just done or given you: · "Here's the book you wanted." "Ta."· "I've made you a cup of tea." "Cheers."
formal spoken say this when someone has generously offered to do something for you: · "Here, you can have my seat." "Thank you, that's very kind of you."· "Would you like me to carry your shopping?" "That's very good of you!"
spoken say this when you want to thank someone who has done a lot to help you: · Thanks for helping out on a Sunday - I appreciate it.I really appreciate it: · I couldn't have managed without your support and encouragement. I really appreciate it.
spoken say this when you want to thank someone who has given you something, especially something expensive: · What a beautiful ring! Oh Mike, you shouldn't have!
spoken use this to thank someone who has got you out of a difficult situation, or solved a problem for you: · You've saved my life, Jim! Thank goodness you were here.
spoken use this to thank someone in a formal speech: · I would like to thank everyone who helped at the school fair.I'd like to thank somebody for (doing) something: · I'd like to thank Betty and Jim for organizing this wonderful party.
use this to thank someone, especially when writing a letter: · We received the pictures on Wednesday. Many thanks.many thanks for: · Many thanks for your letter of the other day.
words for describing things or people of many different kinds especially spoken a lot of people or things that are different from each other, but of the same general type: · I meet all sorts of people in my job.· The bureau provides advice on all kinds of housing problems.· My landlady has all kinds of junky stuff in the basement.· Pregnancy causes all sorts of hormonal changes in your body.
very different from each other, though belonging to the same group or being connected in some way: · Indian cinema shows several diverse influences.· It is difficult to design a program that will meet the diverse needs of all our users.· The category of "mammals" contains creatures as diverse as whales, elephants, and human beings.
many very different or surprisingly different kinds of things: · All manner of foodstuffs lay scattered on the kitchen table.· Health food stores promote all manner of herbs to prevent colds.
from or in every kind of job and every social class: · Members of the organization come from all walks of life.· The Internet has affected the everyday existence of children and adults in all walks of life.· Golf used to be a game for the rich, but now it attracts people from all walks of life.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meaning 2verbs He lived most of his adult life in Scotland. decisions which affect our lives She lives alone. Her brother is the bane of her life. She had led a blameless life. Stealing that money has branded Jim for life – no one will trust him again. Venetian art in this period was a closed world. Charlie Chaplin had a long and colorful career. She grasped the side of the boat and hung on for dear life. Marje had no idea that her husband was leading a double life with another woman. She lives in dread of (=is continuously very afraid of) the disease returning. On the whole, Dad has had an easy life. Why don’t we make life easy for ourselves and finish it tomorrow? the search for the elixir of life Smoking during pregnancy endangers your baby’s life. Education can greatly enrich your life. the problems of everyday life Mum told me the facts of life when I was twelve. Brenda is a lady who loves life in the fast lane. a terrifying ordeal in which she feared for her life Stockley is fighting for his life (=trying to stay alive), with serious head injuries. Before her illness, Rose enjoyed a full life. Ed believes in living life to the full. She’s had a hard life. My mother made my life hell. These children need a proper home life. the prisoners’ humdrum routine life imprisonment forms of intelligent life They ought to jail her killer for life. If the operation succeeds, Carly will be able to lead a normal life. He has led a charmed life (=been very fortunate). She now leads the life of a recluse. The boy needs a life-saving transplant operation. Miller is serving a life sentence for murder. She insisted on telling me her whole life story. I just want to live my life in my own way. He’s not well enough to live a normal life. She lives a very busy life. He had chosen to live the life of a monk. She’s now in Hollywood living a life of luxury. She lives for the day when she can have a house of her own. He led a lonely life with few friends. The war has led to a tragic loss of life. the enormous variety of marine life Mosquito bites can make life miserable. His main mission in life is to earn as much money as possible. Art should be part of ordinary life. The idea that you should treat others as you would like them to treat you is a fine philosophy of life. a man in the prime of life He enjoys everything he does in both his professional and his private life. He wants a quiet life, while she wants to go out partying. He went on the streets to experience life in the raw. Things don’t happen quite that easily in real life. We try to help them rebuild their lives (=live normally again after something bad has happened). Her drink problem has forced her to retire from public life. He risked his life helping others to escape. Why risk life and limb (=risk your life and health) jumping out of a plane just to raise money for charity? the passion for power and success which rules her life Jane struggled free and ran for her life (=ran in order to avoid being killed). a new treatment that could save his life health problems caused by our sedentary lifestyles I felt as if I was signing away my life. Captivity vastly reduces the life span of whales. the soldier who had spared his life McKellen’s performance gives the play its spark of life (=quality of energy). This was all new to her – part of life’s rich tapestry. Our volunteers include people from all walks of life. The tribe’s traditional way of life is under threat. For Mark, travelling has become a way of life. He spent all his working life in a factory. She had a great zest for life.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· The money you give will save the life of a child.
· He risked his life to help Jews during the Second World War.
(=die)· Hundreds of people lost their lives on the first day of the fighting.
(=kill someone)· All cultures consider it wrong to take a life for no reason.
(=kill yourself)· He was depressed and decided to take his own life.
(=kill someone – used of a thing)· The disease claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population.
(=result in deaths/in someone’s death)· That decision may have cost him his life.
(=die in order to save other people, or because of a strong belief)· These men gave their lives during the war to keep us free.
· They wanted to capture the gunman without endangering the lives of his hostages.
(=not kill someone, when you could kill them)· She begged him to spare the life of her son.
(=be so ill or injured that you might die)· One badly burned man was fighting for his life in hospital.
(=try to stay alive, even though you are very ill or injured)· She clung to life, despite the pain.
phrases (=be still alive because of someone’s actions)· The victim said he owed his life to the stranger who helped him.
(=put yourself in a dangerous situation)· Just crossing this road is taking your life in your hands.
COMMON ERRORS ► Don’t say ‘the cost of life’. Say the cost of living.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· He lived a full and active life.
He lived most of his adult life in Scotland. decisions which affect our lives (=during the whole of your life, a day, a year etc) He had worked all his life in the mine. The boys played video games all day.
He had worked all his life in the mine. The boys played video games all day. She lives alone. Her brother is the bane of her life. (=how long a battery produces electricity)· My old phone had a longer battery life.
She had led a blameless life. Stealing that money has branded Jim for life – no one will trust him again.· the advantages of city life
Venetian art in this period was a closed world. Charlie Chaplin had a long and colorful career. (=that may cause death)· The surgery repaired a potentially life-threatening heart condition.
· the complexity of contemporary life
· Changing conditions shape the course of evolution.
(=the stages of life that happen in order)· Dragonflies develop wings in the last stage of their life cycle.
· Firemen put their own lives in danger as part of their job.
She grasped the side of the boat and hung on for dear life. (=cause problems for someone) She’s doing everything she can to make life difficult for him.
She’s doing everything she can to make life difficult for him.· She enjoyed domestic life and bringing up three children.
Marje had no idea that her husband was leading a double life with another woman. She lives in dread of (=is continuously very afraid of) the disease returning. (=when someone is a young child, adolescent etc)· We’ve known each other since early childhood.
On the whole, Dad has had an easy life. Why don’t we make life easy for ourselves and finish it tomorrow? the search for the elixir of life Smoking during pregnancy endangers your baby’s life. Education can greatly enrich your life. (=escape and not be killed)· When the tunnel collapsed, the men were lucky to escape with their lives.
the problems of everyday life (=experience that comes from life)· As an older parent, your life experience is one of your greatest assets.
Mum told me the facts of life when I was twelve.· Some people believe that television is destroying family life.
Brenda is a lady who loves life in the fast lane. (=be afraid that you may be killed)· Celia was in fear of her life when she saw the truck coming toward her.
a terrifying ordeal in which she feared for her life Stockley is fighting for his life (=trying to stay alive), with serious head injuries. (=make someone feel extremely afraid) He drove at a speed which frightened Lara to death.
He drove at a speed which frightened Lara to death. Before her illness, Rose enjoyed a full life. Ed believes in living life to the full. She’s had a hard life. My mother made my life hell. These children need a proper home life.· I firmly believe in the sanctity of all human life.
the prisoners’ humdrum routine (=likely to cause death)· Doctors say that his illness isn’t life-threatening.
life imprisonment· Surprisingly few families have adequate life insurance.
forms of intelligent life· He had become used to the slow pace of island life.
They ought to jail her killer for life. If the operation succeeds, Carly will be able to lead a normal life. He has led a charmed life (=been very fortunate). She now leads the life of a recluse. (=deceive people by keeping different parts of your life separate and not letting anyone know the whole truth) Joe had been leading a double life, seeing an ex-model while his wife believed he was on business.
Joe had been leading a double life, seeing an ex-model while his wife believed he was on business. The boy needs a life-saving transplant operation. Miller is serving a life sentence for murder. She insisted on telling me her whole life story. I just want to live my life in my own way. He’s not well enough to live a normal life. She lives a very busy life. He had chosen to live the life of a monk. She’s now in Hollywood living a life of luxury. She lives for the day when she can have a house of her own. He led a lonely life with few friends. The war has led to a tragic loss of life.· It was difficult to give up a life of luxury.
(=for keeping a very sick person alive)· He has been on a life-support machine since the accident.
the enormous variety of marine life· Throughout her married life, her husband’s interests had come first.
(=one who has paid to be a member for their whole life)· a life member of the Royal Academy of Artists
British English (=specially treated milk that you can keep for a long time)· I’ve got a carton of long-life milk in the cupboard.
Mosquito bites can make life miserable. His main mission in life is to earn as much money as possible.· These problems are a major part of modern life.
(=it is something that you will never understand – used humorously)· Where socks disappear to after they’ve been washed is one of life’s little mysteries.
(=used to emphasize how bad something was) Never in all my life have I felt so humiliated.
Never in all my life have I felt so humiliated.· All I want is to lead a happy, normal life.
· The child underwent a life-saving operation to remove a blockage in her stomach.
Art should be part of ordinary life.· Here, the sun shines every day and the pace of life is slower.
· I’ve got to maintain a balance between my personal life and my work.
The idea that you should treat others as you would like them to treat you is a fine philosophy of life. (=plants)· All but the dirtiest of rivers support some plant life.
(=one that will pay out money if you die)· New homeowners must usually buy a life policy before they can get a mortgage.
· At that time women were excluded from the political life of the country.
(=things that live in ponds)· The children are studying pond life this term.
a man in the prime of life He enjoys everything he does in both his professional and his private life.· At this point she took the biggest risk of her professional life.
He wants a quiet life, while she wants to go out partying. He went on the streets to experience life in the raw. Things don’t happen quite that easily in real life. We try to help them rebuild their lives (=live normally again after something bad has happened). Her drink problem has forced her to retire from public life. He risked his life helping others to escape. Why risk life and limb (=risk your life and health) jumping out of a plane just to raise money for charity? the passion for power and success which rules her life Jane struggled free and ran for her life (=ran in order to avoid being killed). a new treatment that could save his life (=get a permanent scar)· A little girl has been scarred for life in a tragic playground accident.
(=scare someone very much) The alarm scared the hell out of me.
The alarm scared the hell out of me. health problems caused by our sedentary lifestyles (=prison for the rest of your life, or a very long time)· In 1978 he was given a life sentence for attacking a 72-year-old woman.
(=get a very big shock)· He got the shock of his life when he found out who I was.
I felt as if I was signing away my life. (=activities that involve being with other people for pleasure)· Teenagers enjoy an active social life.
Captivity vastly reduces the life span of whales. the soldier who had spared his life McKellen’s performance gives the play its spark of life (=quality of energy). (=used about animals)· Many rainforest species cannot live anywhere else.
(=the same size as the person or animal it shows)· a life-size bronze statue of a youth
(=the way of life of university and college students)· Parties are an important part of student life.
This was all new to her – part of life’s rich tapestry. (=all the activities in a village)· She had always taken an active part in village life.
Our volunteers include people from all walks of life. The tribe’s traditional way of life is under threat. For Mark, travelling has become a way of life. He spent all his working life in a factory. She had a great zest for life.· In practice active and contemplative life get in each other's way.· The best demonstration that an academic person cares about others is sharing an active intellectual life.· All that mattered was the retention of an active way of life that would maintain the stimulus to individual self-development.· Within the limits of the canons' active pastoral life, Chrodegang stressed the communal liturgy.· Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen.· He withdrew from active life and retired to Kenilworth where on the 4 January 1927 he died at the age of seventy-seven.· Even though they were retired, they had been leading a very active life.· Most residents of homes for the elderly are in their eighties and have come there towards the end of an active life.
· Being overweight, when young or in your adult life. 3.· I have cared for others all of my adult life.· Thus the simple but overall goal is that children should grow up properly equipped for adult life.· I have had motor neurone disease for practically all my adult life.· In addition to marriage, many people say that raising children is perhaps the single most maturing experience in their adult lives.· Though leading outwardly normal lives, many from the Kindertransporte were still subject to emotional repercussions long into adult life.· Louis, Ray has spent most of his adult life behind bars.
· With complete honesty these works convey the realities of daily life.· Going about my daily life, I certainly never told them aloud and never even alluded to them.· But do you not think the life of the Thirties, the daily life, was much more terrible?· So reality is portrayed as a series of crises and cliff-hanger plotlines, as opposed to the plodding process of daily life.· If daily life was difficult, public duties were a nightmare.· Every facet of daily life was subject to a set of rigid institutional controls and physical sanctions entirely new to human experience.· She chooses to paint objects and settings that reflect the natural pleasure and sympathy she has with her daily life.· The daily lives of the patients are not scheduled by staff; participation in treatment and rehabilitation programs is voluntary.
· Despite the primacy of its influence, socialisation in the early years of life is not confined to the family, however.· Little is known of his early life.· For most of her early life Vysokogorets-Dostoevskaya was oblivious to the status of her great-grandfather.· At the beginning of his testimony Friday, Simpson described his earlier life, his rise from projects to athletic stardom.· This act of betrayal is perhaps a more real reason for O'Brian's reluctance to talk about his early life.· These were the things our minister preached to us every Sunday of my early life.· Inappropriate medical management of these cases can cause food refusal later because of inappropriate feeding experiences during early life.· Also known as Levi; no records of his early life.
· He was equable and a pessimist and very gay in everyday life.· For example, the constructions can be found everywhere in everyday life.· The flow of everyday life provides a context in which individual human consciousness usually operates.· National character supposedly reflects the everyday life that finds its way into the culture.· For example, we already know the physical laws that govern everything that we experience in everyday life.· People have plenty of warnings in their everyday lives.· I can cope with him and everyday life now.· Its vigour and vitality attest to a popular piety deeply rooted in the everyday life of the local community.
· She had lived a very full life.· I felt full of life and my commitment to activism was, for me, a rejection of death.· But you're not one of them, Shae - you're too warm, too full of life.· Inside, the place was warm, inviting and full of life.· Their characters do not seem to lead full, emotional lives.· Perhaps if my parents had not died so early, I might have been able to live a full life.· The plump girl, who had been so full of life, was killed in the same way as the earlier victims.· This is because we have withheld from them the full elixir of life.
· I believe firmly in the sanctity of human life-all human life.· The contest between rival visions of the meaning of human life was about to begin.· Politicians often claim that human life is beyond economic calculation and must be given absolute priority whatever the cost.· Underneath there persists, powerfully too, a thick sense of what is normal for human life.· Nothing is sacred the United Nations flag, the Red Cross, and least of all human life.· As a result, those four decades seem utterly normative to us, the only conceivable pattern for human life.· Yet it is by no means the only, or the first, function of language in human life.· Having disposed of one great story which gave coherence to human life, Western culture substituted another called scientific progress.
· Those who gave smoking up in later life occupy an intermediate position.· They gave him something he needed late in life, and he gave them something they needed early in theirs.· In later life his philanthropic deeds were legion.· But, though large, the book is not, like Welles in later life, overweight.· However, the variations in mortality between the developed and Third World in the later years of life are much less extreme.· For these serious psychiatric conditions the onset of new cases in later life appears to be very rare.· He certainly enjoyed perfect health, helped, he claimed, by being a teetotaller and in later life a vegetarian.· A second influence has been the developing interest in the differences in later life experience between men and women.
· It also had one of the longest lives as it was working right up to the late 1940s.· That hour, how-ever, would be one of the longest of their lives.· On the other hand warrants invariably start out with much longer lives and are exercised on dates predetermined by the issuing company.
· The hustle and bustle of modern life occurs in the shadow of history.· I tried to find the plastic value of these fragments of our modern life.· Cumulative selection is the key to all our modern explanations of life.· Singles may be peripheral in a sense; but their experience is central to the enigmas of modern life.· We think of the desert of modern life with the concentration on material possessions and its resultant poverty.· Such was its seductive hold that it could seem as if all of modern life was bewitched by a Taylorist demon.· But in practice, modern Earthly life is a protege of water, as much as it is of carbon.· As options and the means of accessing them have multiplied, change has become a generally congenial rule of modern life.
· Start planning your new career and life today.· Eggs are an international symbol of Easter, the sign of rebirth and new life.· I would have a completely new life that was pleasant enough.· But new exquisite life can't inhabit such places.· And, on the other hand, he believed that his anguish would give it new strength and new life.· The Jones family set sail for a new life.· Monroe Presley likes to dream of what his new life will be like.
· But I've benefited enormously from having a stable, normal home life.· Some patients did emerge from iron lungs and resume their normal lives, fully recovered.· Harry will probably get over his affection for Lucy once we return to a normal life again.· In the ocean they live to be 40, double their normal life expectancy in captivity.· She can lead an almost totally normal life.· From then on, any semblance of normal life became impossible.· I don't want a lonely life, just a normal family life again.· Clare was surprised to find how much money it cost to lead what she considered a normal life.
· Nevertheless the Hena villagers, in their ordinary lives, led much the same sort of existence as the Goigama villagers.· We hear from their parents and siblings about their ordinary lives and varied personalities, and about their final hours.· I mean, live an ordinary life.· People often display powers in time of fire that they would never dream of in ordinary life.· Any revolutionary aspirations of the younger members are centred on gaining work and admittance to the mainstream of ordinary life.· In a study of everyday or ordinary life the scholar can go beyond the ordinary because the people studied do.· It was crewed by amateur sailors and one of them says adjusting to ordinary life has been difficult.· The fluctuations, then, are well within the range of ordinary urban life and hardly noticeable to humans.
· Fonda has played almost as many roles in her personal life as she has in film.· And finally, there was my personal life, which was separate from the family and work.· She says her life revolved around the ice rink - she had to fit her personal life in around her skating.· The truly scientific mind can also be open to forms of truth which lie in the area of personal life and relationships.· Our business and personal lives depend upon being able to use words successfully.· With Osterlind he discussed art and philosophy but not his personal life.· Everyone needs to be able to integrate work with personal life.· I may be too strongly associated in Voznesensky's mind with a complicated period in his personal life.
· It is the candid chronicle of a long and distinguished political life.· But the more Dole succeeded in his political life, the more his marriage deteriorated.· Not many other people in Texas political life were beating his drum.· Mr Major and his Chancellor Norman Lamont were fighting for their political lives last night in the greatest crisis they have faced.· Men would be swayed to this action or that; economic and political life would be erratic and rudderless.· The Hanoverian kings were not uninterested in political life but they had difficulty comprehending the complexities of domestic and foreign affairs.· The soccer mom walks out a happy customer and a political ally for life.
· Erecting and maintaining barriers between the public and private aspects of life demands energy and vigilance.· Individuals were encouraged to relate politics to every aspect of their public and private lives.· The effects of alcohol misuse spill over from private life into the workplace, causing inefficiency and accidents as well as absenteeism.· Herrera, anxious to return to private life and to recuperate from his recent illness, again refused.· His determination to ensure his private life remained private kept him hidden off screen.· But then Paul is not the sort of man to talk about his private life at work.· This obliges countries to respect an individual's private and family life.· Everyone is entitled to some private life.
· In his later years Howard seems increasingly to have retired from public life.· It is probably too soon to know what effect the Rich case might have on his prospects in public life.· Dali's public life was an eccentric extension of his surrealist vision.· What fosters the Terrells' sizable contributions to public life is money, old money and vast money.· It went far beyond her role as a woman in public life.· It presents us with an important catharsis that we should hope never becomes the town square of public life.· At present, few opportunities exist for citizens to act as participants in public life.· In public life his guiding principles were Protestantism and protectionism.
· And yet, on a mature view, do not all these fragments suggest the pressures of real life?· Drama, after all, is not real life.· They are treating people in a real life context.· In real life, Selena ran out of that motel room with a bullet wound, and bled to death.· The Internet is no substitute for real life but it's great for fighting off boredom.· Both Kemp and Gore referred to real life people to illustrate their points.· More detailed than real life, more exact, more real.· Q: Are you a cheerleader in real life?
· Allowing home and social lives to wither means that there are no other sources of support when work fails.· These children may be passive and have difficulty taking charge of their social life.· For some there is the enjoyment of the social life which may be offered by the Church and its musicians.· Thus the study of the political world is of crucial importance to the creation of humane social life.· Roles provide social life with order and predictability.· Alcohol provided a social life for Dad as well as an escape.· Not altering your own social life and neglecting your own friendships.· He would state all these things and would add that Citizen Oswald takes no part in the social life of the shop.
· There were better things in life, for a young man like him, than plodding round London after a pick-pocket.· Cricket represented a better life for their children.· When she got pregnant again, she decided she wanted a better life for her child.· Hope keeps the characters searching for a better life.· She tries to shepherd a reluctant gang member named Howie through the system and into a better life.· I hope you and Cyril are well and enjoying life.· Nowadays parents work real hard so that they can have a better life than their parents had.
· His whole life was lived at the mercy of the second favourite planet.· To me in my whole life, if you keep score, you have to be the best.· That had never happened to her in her whole life before.· Ya do one fucken thing wrong in yur whole goddamn life an ya got ta pay fer it till kingdom come!· It was to have a big effect on my whole life.· Her whole life had been locked to geometries.· But a whole way of life leads up to that moment of departure-and the song is a symbol of it.· They would not understand what a bitter struggle my whole life has been.
NOUN· These illustrations should not be used as a basis for comparing similar policies issued by other life assurance companies or Friendly Societies.· They can buy life assurance companies, run unit trusts and take over or start stockbroking firms.· Takeovers and mergers continue to take place within the life assurance sector.· And of course, also increase the life assurance protection for your family.· Priorities Plus combines life assurance with critical illness cover.· The move implements cancellation provisions contained in the second and third life assurance directive.· The amount of each encashment will depend upon your age at that time and the amount of life assurance.· In December the last hope, life assurance giant Prudential, pulled out.
· Ostertagia ostertagi O. ostertagi has a direct life cycle.· Their life cycle is much like that of ferns.· Like most butterflies they share the same basic life cycle.· The 1990s will be an age of niche markets, intense competition, and extremely short product life cycles.· However, the complex life cycle and the effects of the virus on the immune system make this a very difficult task.· Plant cover crops such as cereal rye to add organic matter and disrupt the life cycle of root knot nematodes.· Both free-living and parasitic phases of the life cycle are similar to those of the bovine species.· The current interpretation is essentially a compromise between these two extremes, the life cycle interpretation.
· Despite these problems most people get by and have a life expectancy of about 70 to 80 years.· Due to life expectancy these boilers have not been priced for conversion.· Their life expectancy may be less than the national average, and they may be more susceptible to illness and disease.· Doctors put the life expectancy of sufferers at about 40 years - even if they have daily injections of insulin.· They frequently suffer chest infections and have a low life expectancy.· Second, Aids has slashed life expectancy in many countries, killing the most economically productive generation and leaving orphans and elderly.
· She warned that family life was increasingly under threat from debt and house repossession.· This one, because it explores living family life in a new way, is more collective than most.· The less well-to-do may encourage early marriage and give priority to settling down to stable family life.· Mom wears an apron and a smile, looking fully ensconced in family life.· It is without television that our family life would be destroyed.· Rousseau called for reforms in state, church, education, family life and marriage.· It reflects the inviolability of family life that in our society helps to mask the darker side of caring and dependency.· Not only did the new managers feel they neglected their family lives, they ignored their need for leisure and relaxation.
· I mentioned the sentence of life imprisonment and the unlimited fines that are available for crimes involving knives.· If convicted, Kordic faces up to life imprisonment.· Astiz has already been sentenced, in absentia, to life imprisonment by a Paris court.· I think life imprisonment with hard labor is really important.· Two former students were sentenced inabsentia to life imprisonment.· New closed prisons were built for convicted offenders serving long fixed sentences or life imprisonment for the most serious crimes.· Gen Krstic faces life imprisonment if the final verdict, due in the first half of next year, is guilty.· He insisted their sentence should be commuted to life imprisonment.
· Finally, life insurance to protect your loan is vital.· In addition, a number of books on life insurance are readily available at public libraries.· Conditions of service are good with a contributory pension scheme, subsidised canteen and free life insurance.· As for price competition, it is about as real and intelligible as it is in the life insurance or banking fields.· Green was set to gain £120,000 in life insurance on his wife, the court heard.· These calls and mailings are probably selling living trusts, annuities, life insurance or a combination of these.· And even if you already have private medical insurance and life insurance, you may still need Lloyds Bank Accident Cashguard.· Families with young children typically do need life insurance.
· John Shaw, the elected prisoners' chairman of D-wing tells John Earle, a life sentence inmate, what to expect.· Stiner and his brother, George, were convicted for murder and received life sentences.· She had been served four years of a life sentence for the murder of her baby son.· Saldivar claimed she fired her gun accidentally, but she was convicted of murder and is serving a life sentence.· Smart, 30, is serving a life sentence with no chance of parole.· If convicted, the alleged drug lord could face several life sentences.· Nilson is serving a life sentence after he admitted killing 15 or 16 men.· Eslaminia is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole at Folsom Prison.
· This is an epic of Oprah's age, with an engaging heroine whose life story is well-made, but essentially insignificant.· Major newspapers and national magazines will be telling and retelling his life story.· Weekly budgets don't tell life stories.· Often families, like the patients, floundered in their efforts to adapt to new roles and changed life stories.· His life story could have come straight from one of his classic blues songs.· Cornell was the most autobiographical of artists, for ever relating his life story -- or lack of one -- in his work.· It was Bruno Morenz's life story.· His platform is his life story and his political career.
VERB· What happens in another country can within seconds affect life in our own country.· The strange, eerie story of an ancient love so strong that it affects the lives of those in the present.· Collins is the amorous object of a football referee's fantasy which affects his professional life on the field.· The group fears that the change in regulations would lead to more ocean dumping which could adversely affect sea life and beaches.· On a wider front secularism has affected our lives in a variety of ways.· These upheavals have shaken and shaped the twentieth century, and in countless ways they affect our lives still.· Police say they have to make decisions affecting hundreds of lives in minutes.· Naturally, we hope every citizen will vote, a simple obligation of democracy with results that profoundly affect our lives.
· They too are part of the Nature which brings life into being.· An ad campaign brought to life.· But Chris - Chris had brought him back to life.· Because it was done with respect for the music, and with a fresh approach that brought it life all over again.· It brings a lot of life to the town.· He was dead, and remained dead until brought back to life by Rhea.· He needs something to bring him back to life something to live for.· Artisans needed more than just fertile imaginations and a soft touch with a trowel to bring their work to life.
· It was to change the life of the human race as much as had steam.· My work has changed my life.· Mike Rowbottom reports on how the inmates work together to change their lives in part two of our series, Inside Story.· In addition, of course, working toward a meaningful life goal changes the feeling of life very greatly.· Any time we set out to change our lives or the world, we have to take the long view.· Kiefer Sutherland stars as Kevin Richter, an uncontrollable teenager whose hidden past holds the key to changing his life.· What happened after the war changed my course of life.
· The feud has so far claimed five lives.· They scrub because if war claimed their lives, these volunteers would want some one to care for their memory, too.· Its independence campaign has claimed nearly 800 lives since 1968.· One military intelligence soldier fired on a months ago claiming he felt his life was threatened.· It may yet claim other lives!· That assault claimed five lives and injured many others.· This crevasse alone has claimed 18 lives.
· They can be real and strong, affecting the way we lead our lives.· So I led a peaceable life, isolated from the intermittent scientific squabbles over who had first rights to which animals.· It was to be more than five years before they were able to lead a normal married life.· Mendl will give me a home, he wants children, he wants to lead a normal life.· They lead medieval-style lives of appalling hardship.· A slightly revised theory of the ignorance of paternity involves the idea that women and men led largely separate lives.· The travellers say they should be allowed to lead a nomadic life.· Though I myself led a licentious life, the licentiousness of the women nevertheless shocked me.
· Today, people are living longer and healthier lives.· More recently, the couple made a brave effort to live a normal life for the children.· Like anyone who has lived most of his life in relative obscurity, Payne remains uncomfortable with public scrutiny.· We've lived such different lives, Shelley, but the moment we were together it didn't matter at all.· He lived his separate life and she waited for him to falter and slip back into alcohol.· For official artists it meant living a privileged life.· You can be your own man. Live your own life.
· Nevertheless, unless there's some cooperation between us, your daughter could lose her life.· Almost losing his life in his effort at reformation, Andrew joined the Theatines.· There was a quietness about her that Mary had seen before when people were losing their hold on life.· Many princes tried and failed, and so they lost their lives.· At least ninety-three people lost their lives in the first days of fighting.· Some lost their lives in panic while trying to scramble aboard crowded ships.· Between 1641 and 1651 more than one in five adult males bore arms perhaps one in twenty lost their lives.· All had been shed once upon a time when she had lost her life.
· Kevin Hunt, of Middleton, Greater Manchester, said yesterday youngsters are risking their lives and damaging trees by climbing them.· She then mates with the transvestite who never risked his life.· Every time a lifeboatman puts to sea, he risks his life.· Cieslakiewicz had risked his life for him.· Men and women from the ambulances risked their lives to rescue tormented souls.· He had risked their lives, but the gamble had paid off and that was the end of it.· Sometimes they would take journalists to the front line; sometimes they would risk their lives to help reporters.· Your grandfather risked his own life to save Michael.
· But they say their real reward is knowing they've helped to save lives.· That was just one of hundreds of incidents where its fast, clean work saved a life.· The M-forty through Oxfordshire is notoriously prone to fog ... campaigners say overhead lighting is urgently needed to save lives.· It may be the smallest investment that's saved the most lives across the developing world.· As long as the cancers are detected early enough, laser treatment can save lives.· After a few seconds, the machine may repeat its order or advise another course of action that could save a life.· Doctor Ryding's passport bears witness to the thousands of miles he's travelled helping to save lives for the red cross.· Do not overfeed, and systematize your feeding to save the lives of your fish.
· I married Danny because I was madly in love and wanted to share my life with him.· They share the life of books.· For how long would Rachaela have to go on sharing her life with this being?· This helps avoid a lot of misunderstandings down the shared road of life.· Like most butterflies they share the same basic life cycle.· Even as I write this, the shared facts of our lives continue to thread their way through our flesh.· Not positively and self-sufficiently alone, but alone because she had no one with whom to share her life.· The women, both 33, have been living together and sharing their lives for the last six years.
· They always appear to be happy and spend their lives trying to help others.· I spent my life making such moments in men.· Pupils between the ages of 5 and 16 spend a great deal of their life within the school walls.· And moral objections to people spending their lives shooting scag.· He had spent his life designing inoffensive wallpaper, he realised, and he was not really ashamed of that.· Instead, they spent their lives working at the family store Olivia was bookkeeper for near fifty goddamn years.· The courageous two-year-old has spent all his short life in hospital.· She has spent her life trying to make me feel guilty.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► come to life/roar into life/splutter into life etc► the life and soul of the party► get a life!► life’s a bitch► how’s life?► cannot for the life of me► life’s too short► not on your life► there’s life in the old dog yetPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► an attempt on somebody’s life► you (can) bet your life/your bottom dollar► depart this life► a dog’s life► end your life/end it all► the facts of life► somebody’s life flashes before their eyes► follow a profession/trade/way of life etc► beat/thrash etc somebody to within an inch of their life► somebody has their own life to lead► a matter of life and/or death► somebody can’t do something to save his/her life► a slice of life► I’d stake my life on it► that’s the story of my life► that’s life/men/politics etc (for you)► variety is the spice of life
- Music is Laura's life.
- A life that isn't exactly life.
- His praying likewise was full of life and feeling.
- That, she said later, was how life baited the trap.
- The hard-edged Luce style was making Life a more serious product than its old-fashioned competitor.
- When this relationship is extended, life on land becomes equated not only with non-questing but with spiritual non-being.
- With the one the bird is risking its life, with the other only a meal.
- In Catal Huyuk the images of life and death mingle in a way that may strike us as bizarre.
- In some cases this might be literally a matter of life and death.
- Issues of life and death also ride the roller coaster in the same trivialising way.
- Not for reasons of life and death or right and wrong, however.
- Or, more accurately, a game of life and death.
- Pure happenstance and luck had much to do with life and death on both sides.
- The words life and death have no meaning for them.
- These two objects are symbolic of life and death.
- But this arbitrary division of the country has not made life easier for either the North or the South.
- Having to adopt the fast-track method made life difficult for all three.
- Jim was uninterested in learning the kind of ecclesial footwork that would have made life easier for himself and his parish.
- Latecomers, however, do make life difficult - and unnecessarily expensive.
- The lack of economic statistics has made life difficult for economists and money managers for the past few weeks.
- There's no greater pleasure than handing over money to a local supplier who helps make life easier.
- To make life easier in the future, will you be publishing an index?
- With the advent of electrics, journey times were to be halves, as well as making life easier for locomotive crews.
- The array of rules and regulations dealing with transport and behaviour on the highway are concerned with protecting life and limb.
- The Malvern Hills Classic meeting ... now in its fourth year ... isn't all about risking life and limb though.
- This meant I didn't have to get risk life and limb to get a good close up shot.
- Villeneuve, who had collided with Ralf Schumacher, gets paid £10MILLION for risking life and limb in Formula One.
- We're talking serious grievous bodily here, maybe loss of life and limb.
- Oh well, that's life!
- But I guess that's life!
- But there you are, Mr. K. that's life.
- The students shrug; that's life, they seem to say.
- She felt marvellously well. 34 Ah, this is the life, this is the life.
- And so that would be the surprise of her life.
- But on Sunday Collins played the game of his life in destroying the fancied Vikings.
- Goalie Garth Snow played the game of his life to save Philly.
- He had arrived before the others, and got the shock of his life when he saw Nails.
- He said he was the security guard, but he had the shock of his life when he saw me.
- She is having the game of her life.
- So when he followed up by pointing us towards the touchline, I got the shock of my life.
- For them, life goes on.
- He knows that life goes on.
- In other words, life goes on.
- It ensures that life goes on.
- The personal construction of life goes on, however much undergirded by chemotherapeutic assistance.
- To be sure, life goes on.
- We all mourn their passing, but life goes on without them.
- While you were there you had a ball, and then life goes on.
- He still wears a sailor suit, the cowlick at his hairline gives his forelock a life of its own.
- His hands windmill in a frenetic semaphore and his body shifts in ceaseless motion, with a life of its own.
- Its Studio Theatre has a life of its own at the forefront of creative theatre.
- Now the Vaccines for Children program has become a new bureaucratic monster with a life of its own.
- She watched it with mild curiosity; it seemed to have a life of its own.
- Tamriel is a self-sufficient world abuzz with a life of its own.
- The ball seemed to have acquired a life of its own.
- The Negro Plot took on a life of its own.
- He was a tough little kid, Esteban, the women in his life say.
- Michael: Who are the men in your life?
- My doctor is the man in my life.
- Nevertheless, he felt abandoned and betrayed by the women in his life.
- Recent books have revealed the unacknowledged literary debts that writers such as Brecht and Joyce owed to the women in their lives.
- To clarify things that may be confusing the men in their lives.
- Was that why she found the men in her life all so boring?
- Why was it that the men in her life seemed to have found some other woman to give them an heir?
- When, however-many years later-the script finally did arrive, two things scared the life out of me.
- I hear that all the older boys are driving big expensive cars and living the life of Riley.
- For Tutankhamun was buried with everything he might need in the next life.
- Perhaps only in the next life.
- When friends parted, they exchanged loans of money to be returned in the next life.
- Full of character, Paxos has an easy social life, ideal for people on holiday by themselves.
- He considered her sound as a bell in most ways, apart from this mad preoccupation with Nicandra's social life.
- He frequently attempted to deflect criticism of his administration and personal life by characterizing such allegations as the product of white racism.
- He would state all these things and would add that Citizen Oswald takes no part in the social life of the shop.
- She didn't have many friends and not much of a social life.
- The next programme started - an analysis of political and social life in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
- The social life of the island was in disarray.
- They are active shoppers and visibly social, using their social life to forward their careers.
- How haggard and bereft of hope they looked!
- These women were old and toothless at a young age, their eyes bereft of hope.
- After the marriage, though, she wants to breathe life into their dry, platonic relationship.
- Belliustin called upon the tsar to circumvent the ecclesiastical hierarchy and breathe life into the clerical estate.
- Now they each had a picture which they examined and re-examined, trying to breathe life into the two-dimensional image.
- Something unexplainable takes over and breathes life into the known life.
- The deal aims to breathe life into the stationer's e-business efforts.
- We harness fossil energy and breathe life into machines.
- But since its premier issue in January 1993, Wired has led a charmed life.
- By his own admission he has led a charmed life.
- It's been too easy for us; we've led charmed lives till now.
- No wonder that she and Charles felt that they led a charmed life, that the times were on their side.
- There is a feeling in the housing projects that life is cheap.
- And, for those who work in the travel and tourism industry, this tax could cost them their jobs.
- His plans to slash defence budgets by £6 billion would cost 100,000 more their jobs.
- I believe that it would cost many people their jobs and would cause far more damage than good.
- It could cost them their lives.
- The most far-reaching internal investigation in Phoenix police history cost four officers their jobs Friday for purchasing banned rifles under false pretenses.
- At the age of twelve, he entered into a life of crime.
- I certainly never figured Tod/John for a life of crime.
- I paid Fagin to trap Oliver into a life of crime.
- Jock has chosen a life of crime within which to fashion a self.
- They hadn't bothered tuppence before when he was following a life of crime.
- VCRs have become a part of daily life in North America.
- Going about my daily life, I certainly never told them aloud and never even alluded to them.
- Just smile politely and proceed with your daily life.
- Most older people cope with the ups and downs of their daily lives.
- She could well understand how women in particular wanted to get away to the West where daily life was so much more convenient.
- Such murders were becoming part of daily life in El Salvador.
- They insure up to the hilt, yet worries about money, health and security suffuse daily life.
- Will the daily lives of these people be improved through this project?
- With complete honesty these works convey the realities of daily life.
- Also the day-to-day work of schools and the task of assessing pupils assumed a higher importance than the development of new curriculum.
- But since the arrival of Robins, he has taken a backseat role with day-to-day business being handled by the new chairman.
- Directors were given the exclusive right to manage the day-to-day business of the company.
- In our day-to-day lives, including day-to-day scientific lives, we have little need of such confirmed hypotheses.
- It also recognises that day-to-day business and executive authority is vested in line management.
- Justices, of course, are accustomed, as part of their day-to-day work, to assessing costs of comparatively small amounts.
- The problem arises because there is nothing in our day-to-day life to provide us with sufficient exercise.
- While with the Chargers for the past two years, McNeely oversaw the day-to-day business operations.
- Sherman held onto the bar for dear life.
- It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan.
- The girl shut her eyes and gripped back for dear life.
- The playing throughout the evening was truly superb, every instrumentalist bowing and blowing and thumping as though for dear life.
- They often looked very strained to Anna, as if they were holding on to their loyalty for dear life.
- This wasn't easy either, because she was spooked and was clinging for dear life to the poor kid's hair.
- With difficulty, he made his way towards her, Charlotte clinging to him for dear life.
- Rachel has always lived a life of ease.
- Brandy's friends noticed a big difference in her after Jerry entered her life.
- About seven more years had been added to expectation of life up to 1901, after which the pace accelerated sharply.
- But what of the expectation of life of some one who has reached the age of forty?
- Improvements in expectation of life are slight in the eighteenth century.
- Second, women have a longer expectation of life than men.
- She was given a very short expectation of life by the doctors.
- Still less is it intended to mirror the expectation of life of the deceased or his dependants.
- The plaintiff is aged 30 and has a normal expectation of life.
- When the normal expectation of life is very low, sickness and death are normal hazards.
- When your world falls apart, do you get mad, get out or get even?
- Bob continued to talk about the good life he wanted for him and Alice.
- But he is also aware that they may be conceptions of the good life for people generally and for society as a whole.
- Can we define the good life?
- Meg thought of Eva Kovacks in the nursing home in Essex and knew who had the best life.
- One of the good guys heading for the good life.
- Seeking the good life, the Stollers moved to Los Angeles in 1949.
- Some are ideological, like the promise of the good life that can be gained by staying within the law.
- This was part of the good life, and they were not to be denied it.
- High-ranking public officials should take the bus so they can see how the other half lives.
- Ye never knew how the other half lives!
- As in Shakespeare, there are scenes of high life and scenes of low life.
- But other authorities also face recruiting difficulties, which suggests that the problem extends beyond high living costs and poor pay.
- But this is one weekend, he thought, when there will be high living and no thinking.
- He told the villa's owner Count Robert de Beaumont how much he loved the sun-soaked Costa high life.
- He was a lively and stylish writer, and contributed a column to the Jerusalem Post on high life and low living.
- His dream had finally run out in an Arabian nightmare of high living and questionable favours.
- It looked like the high life, but it was life on borrowed time.
- His girlfriend was trying to give him the kiss of life.
- I tried to give her the kiss of life.
- The ship's doctor tried to give them the kiss of life but they could not be revived.
- Why didn't you at least try to resuscitate her, give her the kiss of life?
- As large as life and death, both funny and sad - and not a little dangerous.
- He had been standing large as life beside Lady Usk, and it was plain that he knew her identity.
- I looked up - he was standing nearby, large as life.
- Oh, Lee, you're as large as life.
- There were the words, as large as life and often twice as sane.
- Graham was one of the larger-than-life legends of the rock era.
- Floyd Elgin Dominy, larger than life.
- He was an ebullient, larger than life denial of all that was Right: he chain-smoked and drank too much.
- He was for me larger than life.
- Nothing else in existence whatsoever, but there, all alone and larger than life, a huge carrot.
- Pitt, as always, is larger than life.
- She was like a larger than life fantasy that had just come true.
- Shrimpton was in the mid-forties, overweight, and slightly larger than life, a sociable type.
- Worrying about your problems, which seem larger than life at that time of night, is hard to resist.
- Carter and Reagan had come into politics relatively late in life.
- Greg got married late in life.
- She didn't have children until relatively late in life.
- Charlotte only wants to marry him for the house and comforts he can provide her later in life.
- Marriage, if considered, is arrived at later in life, and there is always divorce.
- Much of his commitment to social justice came late in life.
- Not having children or having them late in life doubles the risk, as does heavy alcohol consumption.
- Pauline decided much later in life that she wanted a degree.
- Sir Monty Finniston entered the industrial arena relatively late in life.
- They gave him something he needed late in life, and he gave them something they needed early in theirs.
- Very late in life, bald with worry and eaten by a stomach ulcer, her father became a dentist.
- As a result, the performance in later years could very easily be enhanced.
- But, though large, the book is not, like Welles in later life, overweight.
- Buying two wooden spoons can be more fun at this time than purchasing an expensive set of china in later years.
- For these serious psychiatric conditions the onset of new cases in later life appears to be very rare.
- Nor is there any relief from this pattern of underrepresentation in the statistics for the regular admissions program in later years.
- Secure attachments early on in life provide inner resources to manage stressful and threatening situations in later years.
- The direct impact of improving health in later life has been relatively recent.
- Your young daughter's bossy attitude in later life may be channelled into quite acceptable leadership qualities.
- He considered it a privilege to lay down his life for his country.
- He remembered the words of Izz Huett: She would have laid down her life for you.
- I would lay down my life for it.
- They had true grievances to settle and were ready to lay down their lives for vengeance.
- A re-style can provide locks with a new lease of life.
- Artistic director Christopher Gable has injected it with a new lease of life and brought it to a completely different audience.
- Clearly retirement has given Jean-Luc Sadourny a new lease of life.
- For example, somebody may find that working from home injects their career with a new lease of life.
- Male speaker It's absolutely wonderful - to be given a new lease of life. you're given a second chance.
- Now they are aiming for a new lease of life and further development.
- The Chelsea goalkeeper has found a new lease of life at Grimsby since joining them on loan.
- The political controversy over the Habre affair has been given a new lease of life.
- We have a four-year-old son who is the light of my life.
- His wife, while sound in mind, had taken a pillow and had deliberately snuffed out the light of his life.
- Ixora was his only child, the light of his life.
- LoEshe was the light of his life.
- A church that only looks to itself will never be living life to the full.
- At the new house, he lived life to the full.
- It affects us directly - a balanced diet means we have the necessary energy to carry on living life to the full.
- To live life to the full involves awareness of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual self.
- Tony was treated like an adult, and he got to live life to the full.
- Wants to live life to the full.
- Egalitarian Rousseau lived out his life as the spoilt plaything of eccentric aristocrats.
- He began teaching philosophy at Harvard in 1882 and lived out his life as an eastern intellectual.
- John Morton lived out his life in Darvel, always respected by the people of the Irvine Valley.
- Our comfort is this: We will live out our lives enchanted by Claire, her spell never broken.
- She will find a way to live out her life without gangster Jackie.
- There, side by side, Amelia and Mary Ann would live out their lives.
- Hundreds of people lost their lives when the ship overturned in a storm.
- Over 100 soldiers lost their lives.
- Supporters continue to visit the site where Colosio lost his life to an assassin's bullet.
- Almost losing his life in his effort at reformation, Andrew joined the Theatines.
- At least ninety-three people lost their lives in the first days of fighting.
- Between 1641 and 1651 more than one in five adult males bore arms perhaps one in twenty lost their lives.
- I don't come within an inch of losing my life every day.
- It was no simple task to complete; one workman, thrown into the raging rapids below almost lost his life.
- Many princes tried and failed, and so they lost their lives.
- Nearly 80 journalists, photographers, and associated staff have lost their lives here since May 1993, killed by the fundamentalists.
- We mourn the tens of millions of people who lost their lives.
- Quinn's lust for life is contagious.
- In view of her lust for life, her appetite simply for living?
- Accusations of ballot-box stuffing at the neighborhood-run election were made about the meeting which nominated the new slate.
- Both the subcommittee and Mr Gingrich agree that no public comment should be made about this matter while it is still pending.
- That base, Dobson contends, is made up of conservative Christians who are anti-abortion.
- The chief librarian is responsible for an operation that is made up of the Main Library and 26 neighborhood branches.
- The neck is made from maple, which was a surprise, because I was expecting mahogany.
- The temporary replacement car will be made available only when full details of the loss or damage are notified to General Accident.
- Various adjustments are made to allow for special circumstances affecting local costs of providing particular services.
- Circuit judge John Lee, 65, told a court that all men suffer because women enjoy making their lives a misery.
- In Dinny's code, if you beat some one in a fight you made their life misery for as long as possible.
- It makes my life a misery.
- My supervisor has made my life a misery.
- She really was making his life a misery.
- The roadworks are making their lives a misery.
- Why did they have to make his life a misery?
- A new life began for the and for many.
- After an experience like that, each new day you are granted has a special meaning.
- Her new life in London had become tainted with the deaths of adoring males.
- Of course it did herald a new era ... in the second division.
- The new era of riots overlapped the nonviolent phase of the black liberation struggle.
- The nation was at a critical turning point, self-consciously entering a new era.
- This is our new life, beginning today.
- The Michael Steins of this world have nine lives.
- Monnerville retired from public life in 1983.
- The government is not allowed to aid religion in U.S. public life.
- After all, both men came into public life with private histories.
- Dali's public life was an eccentric extension of his surrealist vision.
- In his later years Howard seems increasingly to have retired from public life.
- In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life.
- It was during this period that her taste for politics and public life were first awakened, her son says.
- Perfect honesty in public life is as rare as anti-matter.
- Politics no longer served as the centerpiece of citizens' public lives.
- The erosion of consensus politics overtook local government as it did many other areas of public life.
- Quality of life could be improved for many of the terminally ill patients.
- The city's low population and openness contribute to the high quality of life in Phoenix.
- A: First, all of the socioeconomic issues; because that deals with quality of life.
- Communication disorders are a source of considerable frustration and undoubtedly interfere with the quality of life.
- I like a good quality of life, whatever name you want to give to that.
- Old buildings and streets, well cared for and adapted to today's needs, vastly enhance the quality of life.
- One must look at the quality of life that diabetics and their carers have.
- The crucial question for Henzler is which of these capitalist systems will give its people the best quality of life.
- The factors or aspects of life which determine quality of life and risk will vary between individuals.
- The simple answer, of course, is safety and quality of life.
- Don't try to run my life!
- The argument based on the sanctity of life is essentially a matter of religious dogma.
- Their outlook on the sanctity of marriage is usually stricter.
- This man who believed in the sanctity of life, its life, not hers.
- What she experienced in her abusive marriage eventually forced her to re-examine Scripture concerning the sanctity of marriage and personhood.
- Thanks for the ride - you really saved my life.
- Nobody expects you to reveal the secrets of the universe, only produce a well-written story.
- We cease trying vainly to understand the secrets of the Universe as we have hitherto tried to do.
- For how long would Rachaela have to go on sharing her life with this being?
- Here I am, knocking 40 any year now and sharing my life with a woman who is seven years my junior.
- How much trouble are we prepared to go to for the privilege of sharing our lives with feline companions?
- I married Danny because I was madly in love and wanted to share my life with him.
- I thought that at last I'd found some one I could share my life with.
- I wasn't ready to share my life with anyone.
- In the end it wasn't just for me but for those I wanted to share my life with.
- We shared our faith with them and they shared their lives with us.
- I lead a sheltered life out in the branch.
- Listen honey, d' you think I lead a sheltered life?
- We led a sheltered life out there in the suburbs.
- What a sheltered life she leads, in her self-built lavender ghetto.
- A flock was once thought to be a decisive sign of life, some noble formation only life could achieve.
- After the bout in which I intimated signs of life, I came through the ropes, smiling.
- Even when all sign of life had gone I kept on feeling itchy.
- Here are inchoate signs of life, but not as we know it, Jim.
- I looked around for the slightest sign of life.
- It was Hilda Machin, and there was no sign of life.
- There are signs of life above the snow, too.
- There was no sign of life.
- Coming from a group whose aim is the simpler life, such an entry into the market place raises some intriguing questions.
- He believed in the simple life and slept on a mattress on the floor.
- Bread is the staff of life.
- Discipline was the staff of life.
- They form the staff of the staff of life; other ingredients are embellishments, points of interest, but not essential.
- A good start is one where you pass close behind the start boat going at speed.
- But it wasn't a good start in the lessons of love, and left me very arid in such matters.
- He had better start by accepting that if he does the right things, they will not be popular ones.
- It wasn't a very good start.
- Not a good start, but a start, nevertheless.
- The auditor may enjoy the gifts, but he had better start looking for a sympathy engram not yet suspected or tapped.
- The problem was the middle and end, when the team sacrificed rebounding for getting out to a good start.
- They will, however, be getting a new center, and that is a good start, he believes.
- But such philosophical dissent, at this point, is the stuff of dreams in a dreamworld.
- How does a political system handle the incredibly difficult and complicated value allocations that are the stuff of politics?
- Our ideas and hopes for the future are the stuff of life.
- This was the stuff of life.
- Within this realm the stuff of dreams and nightmares can coalesce from the very air.
- I can't start repenting at my time of life.
- I love Ma, but she must expect to be unhappy because she's reached that time of life.
- I think at your time of life you should.
- It really was a wonderful place for me, and a wonderful time of life.
- It was a time of life when I did not run out of words.
- Midlife is a time of physical change, as are other times of life.
- Not at my time of life.
- It's a great story, but not always true to life.
- The film gives us a true to life picture of 1920s Chicago.
- Daylight reveals pure new wool in its true to life colours.
- It is relatively true to life.
- Male speaker It's so true to life, just like it was, I think it's tremendous.
- Many of her thoughts pass into oblivion, while the occasional thought comes true to life.
- Plastic and unbelievable though the characters may be, yet realistic and true to life are the human temptations and struggles involved.
- Sphinx, again, is largely true to life.
- That anecdote, told in Beatrice Hastings' New Age column, seems true to life.
- This story is true to life.
- Every second of his waking hours, he was watched.
- He inhales desert lore and data all his waking hours.
- Indeed we sometimes spend a lot of our waking hours making sure that everything is as secure as we can make it.
- Real will is an attribute of consciousness, not of the sleep in which most people pass their waking lives.
- She still wanted to look as she did in waking life, but there were improvements she could make.
- Some people wrestle with their problems until the very last minutes of their waking hours.
- The documentation that he signed said, observe this resident one on one during waking hours.
- We were young and our waking hours were given to games.
- And, as the wheel of fortune continues on its inexorable cycle, values are likely to start going up again soon.
- Then the wheel of fortune turned.
- Such pessimists are wishing their life away.
- Both procedures reflect current government policy concerns with increasing vocationalism and preparation for working life at the pre-16 stage.
- But all teachers are concerned about their own level of stress, and how to lead a satisfying working life.
- Deborah Manley trained as a social worker but has spent most of her working life in publishing.
- Objectives for Care outlines practical applications for nurses to use in their everyday working lives.
- The noise, the abuse, the grimness are everyday parts of their working life.
- They could anticipate earning a decent, middle-class wage there for most of their working lives.
- What do I want out of my working life?
- Your working life can go back as far as April 1936, but not further.
WORD FAMILYnounlifelifelessnessliferadjectivelifelesslifelikelifelongadverblifelessly
1time somebody is alive [countable, uncountable] the period of time when someone is alive: Learning goes on throughout life. You have your whole life ahead of you.in somebody’s life For the first time in my life I was happy. I’ve never been so embarrassed in my life! I’ve known John all my life (=since I was born). His main aim in life was to have fun. It was one of the best days of my life. The accident scarred him for life (=for the rest of his life). She knew she’d feel guilty for the rest of her life. Raj spent his life caring for others. Bonington spent his entire adult life in France. We don’t know much about the poet’s early life (=when he was young). Poor diet can lead to a whole range of diseases in later life (=when you are older). She married late in life (=when she was fairly old). He’s a life member (=continuing until he dies) of the club.2state of being alive [countable, uncountable] the state of being alive: The right to life is the most basic of human rights. Danny was a cheerful little boy who loved life. Two firefighters risked their lives to save the children.3way somebody lives [countable usually singular] the way you live your life, and what you do and experience during itlead/live/have a ... life The operation should enable Bobby to lead a normal life. She just wanted to live a quiet life. Having a baby changes your life completely. The family moved to Australia to start a new life. Ken’s whole life revolved around surfing (=that was the main interest and purpose of his life). You shouldn’t let your boyfriend rule your life (=control and affect everything you do). My grandmother had a hard life (=a life full of problems). She’s led a very sheltered life (=a life in which you have been protected from unpleasant things).a life of crime/poverty/misery etc He had been drawn into a life of crime.4particular situation/job [countable, uncountable] a)the experiences, activities, and ways of living that are typical of being in a particular job, situation, society etc: Why do so few women enter political life? the British way of lifecity/country/village etc life Noise has become one of the main pollutants of modern city life.army/student/college etc life He missed the routine of army life. Are you enjoying married life? b)the time in your life when you are doing a particular job, are in a particular situation etcsomebody’s life as something Now a celebrity chef, he rarely talks about his life as an army cook. Sara admits to having affairs throughout her married life. Most of his working life was spent in the shipyards.5social/personal/sex etc life the activities in your life relating to your friends, your family, sex etc: I don’t need advice about my love life. traditional views of family life Children need a caring and happy home life.6human existence [uncountable] human existence, considered as a variety of experiences and activities: My Aunt Julia had very little experience of life. Life has a way of changing the best of plans. For some people, religion gives life a meaning.daily/everyday life the frustrations and disappointments of everyday life I try to see the funny side of life.7time when something exists/works [countable usually singular] a)the period of time during which something happens or existslife of The issues will not be resolved during the life of the present parliament.start/begin/come to life as something The building began life as a monastery. b)the period of time during which something is still good enough to uselife of What’s the average life of a passenger aircraft? Careful use can extend the life of your washing machine. → shelf life8living things [uncountable] a)the quality of being alive that people, animals, plants etc have and that objects and dead things do not have: Ben felt her neck for a pulse or any other sign of life. In the springtime, everything comes to life again. b)living things, such as people, animals, or plants: Is there life on other planets?human/animal/plant/bird etc life The island is rich in bird life. → wildlife9be somebody’s (whole) life to be the most important thing or person to someone: Music is Laura’s whole life.10life and death (also life or death) used for emphasizing that a situation, decision etc is extremely urgent and important, especially because someone is at risk of dying: Don’t call me unless it’s a matter of life and death. a life or death decision A doctor’s job involves life and death situations.11game [countable] a chance in a game, especially a computer game, in which you can be defeated or do something wrong and can still continue playing: He’s up to level five and still has three lives left.12activity [uncountable] activity or movement: The house was quiet and there was no sign of life. She was always so cheerful and full of life.13interest/excitement [uncountable] a quality of being interesting or exciting: Try to put some life into your writing. The game really came to life after a magnificent goal from Rooney. A gifted teacher can really bring literature to life for his or her students.14come to life/roar into life/splutter into life etc to suddenly start working: Finally the car spluttered into life.15make life difficult/easier etc to make it difficult, easier etc to do something: Surely computers are supposed to make life easier, not more complicated!life for Why make life difficult for yourself?16the life and soul of the party British English, the life of the party American English someone who enjoys social occasions and is fun and exciting to be with17life and limb formal your life and physical health – used especially when this is threatened in some way: She risks life and limb every day in her job as an undercover investigator.18 get a life! spoken used to tell someone that you think they are boring and should find more exciting things to do: You guys should just stop moaning and get a life!19that’s life (also such is life) spoken used to say that something is disappointing but you have to accept it: Oh well, that’s life!20life’s a bitch spoken not polite used to say that bad things happen in life21this is the life spoken used when you are relaxing and doing something you enjoy: Ah, this is the life! Lying on the beach, sipping cool drinks.22the shock/surprise/game etc of somebody’s life the biggest shock or surprise, the best game etc that someone has ever had: I had the surprise of my life when I saw John standing there. → have the time of your life at time1(41)23how’s life? spoken used to ask someone if they are well, what they have been doing etc: Hi Bob! How’s life? How’s life been with you?24life goes on spoken used to say that you must continue to live a normal life even when something sad or disappointing has happened: We both miss him, but life goes on.25a life of its own a)if something has a life of its own, it seems to move or work by itself: The ball seemed to have acquired a life of its own. b)if something has a life of its own, it exists and develops without depending on other things: Slowly but surely, the project is taking on a life of its own.26cannot for the life of me spoken used to say that you cannot remember or understand something even when you try hard: I couldn’t for the life of me remember his name.27life’s too short spoken used to say that you should not waste time doing something or worrying about something: Forget about it. Life’s too short.life for Life’s too short for moping about.life’s too short to do something Life’s too short to bear grudges.28not on your life spoken used as a reply to a question or suggestion to say that you definitely will not do something: ‘Are you going to go and work for him then?’ ‘Not on your life!’29the woman/man/girl etc in your life the woman or man you are married to or are having a relationship with – used especially in advertisements: This is the ideal gift for the man in your life.30prison [uncountable] (also life imprisonment) the punishment of being put in prison for the rest of your lifebe sentenced to/get/be given life He was sentenced to life for the murder. I think she should get life. → life sentence, lifer31art [uncountable] when you paint, draw etc something you are looking at, especially a person or animal: She’s taking classes in life drawing. → still life32frighten/scare the life out of somebody informal to make someone feel very frightened: Don’t do that! You scared the life out of me!33there’s life in the old dog yet spoken used to say that although someone or something is old, they are still able to do something – used humorously34live/lead/have the life of Riley informal to have a very easy and comfortable life and not have to work hard: He spends all day lounging by the pool and living the life of Riley.35book/film [uncountable] the story of someone’s life SYN biography: Boswell’s ‘Life of Johnson’36the next life (also the life to come, life after death) the time after death, in which some people believe life continues in another form: She expects to meet her dead husband in the next life. → as large as life at large1(7), → change of life, → for dear life at dear2(6), → double life, → high life at high1(22), → a new lease of life at lease1(2), → quality of life at quality1(5), → real life at real1(3), real-life, → true to life at true1(9), → walk of lifeCOLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2verbssave somebody’s life· The money you give will save the life of a child.risk your life· He risked his life to help Jews during the Second World War.lose your life (=die)· Hundreds of people lost their lives on the first day of the fighting.take a/somebody’s life (=kill someone)· All cultures consider it wrong to take a life for no reason.take your own life (=kill yourself)· He was depressed and decided to take his own life.claim the life of somebody (=kill someone – used of a thing)· The disease claimed the lives of up to a quarter of the population.cost lives/cost somebody their life (=result in deaths/in someone’s death)· That decision may have cost him his life.give your life/lay down your life (=die in order to save other people, or because of a strong belief)· These men gave their lives during the war to keep us free.endanger the life of somebody· They wanted to capture the gunman without endangering the lives of his hostages.spare somebody’s life (=not kill someone, when you could kill them)· She begged him to spare the life of her son.be fighting for your life (=be so ill or injured that you might die)· One badly burned man was fighting for his life in hospital.cling to life (=try to stay alive, even though you are very ill or injured)· She clung to life, despite the pain.phrasesowe your life to somebody (=be still alive because of someone’s actions)· The victim said he owed his life to the stranger who helped him.take your life in your hands (=put yourself in a dangerous situation)· Just crossing this road is taking your life in your hands.COMMON ERRORS ► Don’t say ‘the cost of life’. Say the cost of living.