to make people forget about something embarrassing or silly that you have done
All the girls in my class are going except me! I’ll never live it down!
His first impression was of greyness: the capital was fighting to live down a sad and chequered inheritance.
She said happily to Darren, `Moira and John used to live down there.
They felt like sea creatures that live down where there's no light-- knife-toothed, blunt-headed, colorless.
You don't think we'll have to come and live down here, will we?
lives down
living down
lived down
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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