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

[Laurence Horn]

Very nice, especially following all the links and seeing the variants at Ben's post, http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002651.html.
Seems like we might have the makings here of an unsuccessful sequel to appeal to the intersecting audiences for "Eat Pray Love" and "Eats, Shoots & Leaves": 
"Eats, Breathes, and Sleeps"--or maybe "Eats, Drinks, and Shits" for the PG-13 version.

LH

> On Apr 11, 2015, at 7:32 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
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>> On Apr 11, 2015, at 4:04 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> 'To be entirely dedicated to.'
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>> Quite familiar to me for decades. Not in OED.
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>> TV promo: "Amy eats, breathes, and sleeps Beauty!"
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> on Language Log:
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> Eric Bakovic, Snowclone shortening, 11/14/05
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__itre.cis.upenn.edu_-257Emyl_languagelog_archives_002646.html&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=gr68xRdNULC-SimlwFUOs7L8mjJDr1SObhZt24HKysI&s=Yp0rwGQEpc-vXlXUlVUbi_u046ohb3NWJHkasjBpjc8&e= 
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> on the snowclone “X eats, drinks, and sleeps Y” ‘all X does is Y, ‘all X does is (related to) Y, X has an all-consuming dedication to Y’; shortened to “X sleeps Y”
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> Mark Liberman, Eating, drinking, sleeping snowclones, 11/15/05
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__itre.cis.upenn.edu_-7Emyl_languagelog_archives_002647.html&d=AwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=wFp3X4Mu39hB2bf13gtz0ZpW1TsSxPIWYiZRsMFFaLQ&m=gr68xRdNULC-SimlwFUOs7L8mjJDr1SObhZt24HKysI&s=1hIK31E7C2oCleoxx1hK2iyZpxGogXJV72Lq7skCfaU&e= 
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> "this is a remarkably "modular" snowclone, allowing a wide variety of conjoined verbs beyond eat, drink, and sleep, in numerous permutations and combinations"
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