live it up
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What if you want to use your retirement to live it up and catch up on the fun you missed out on when you were a working stiff?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Rolling into the restaurant and announcing you won't be footing your friends' booze bill can make you feel like a bit of a buzzkill if others are planning to live it up.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
We’re all going to bite it in the end, the Mansion seems to tell us, so let’s live it up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
Soak it in, live it up — this is officially a hockey town.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
He must be thinking the same way as Looper: everything was hopeless anyhow, so he’d live it up while he could.
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
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