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live happily ever after

Spend the rest of one's life in happiness, as in In her romantic novels the hero and heroine end up marrying and then live happily ever after. This hyperbolic phrase ends many fairy tales. [Mid-1800s]

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live data, live down, live for the moment, live from day to day, live from hand to mouth, live happily ever after, live high off the hog, live in, live in an ivory tower, live in each other's pockets, live in sin
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