lead a double life

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Live as if one were two persons, usually one good and one bad. For example, They learned that his frequent travels were actually fictitious, and he was leading a double life, with a second home on the other side of town. This phrase is frequently used for a married person who establishes a second household with a lover. [Late 1800s] Also see Jekyll and Hyde.

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His life as a man is built around health insurance and tax services.
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Such is her burgeoning popularity Toomey is looking to employ more instructors to lead her highly personalized exercise classes.
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It was also an attack on our freedom of expression and way of life.
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I always wanted my life to be that way, and it became that way.
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Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.
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Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, however he may have made exception to private life.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
We shall recover again some or all of the steadfastness and dignity of the old religious life.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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