live it up

1. Enjoy oneself, often extravagantly. For example, They came into some money and decided to live it up with a trip around the world. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]

Example Sentences

But then he saw his friends living it up as students on Instagram and Snapchat.

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He could live it up until he’s 31 and then take out a policy that would pay more than Social Security.

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O’Brien lived it up in the final week of his modestly rated show, smoking a blunt with Seth Rogen, messing around with Jack Black and being congratulated by a slew of celebrities wishing him well.

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Pleasure assures her that she can stay that way, so she might as well live it up as long as she can.

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The Viennese fondness for him may well be that, in his exuberance, he lets them live it up, even when that might mean chipping the china a little in his lust for splashy spectacle.

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