[Ads-l] "eat, breathe, and sleep"

[Jonathan Lighter]

'To be entirely dedicated to.'

Quite familiar to me for decades. Not in OED.

TV promo: "Amy eats, breathes, and sleeps Beauty!"

1952 _Pottstown [Pa.] Mercury_ (June 13) 8: Conner is labor's man. He has
espoused the cause of organized labor since his early youth. It is his
life, a subject he eats, breathes and sleeps in addition to working at
constantly.

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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