as I live and breathe
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as I live and breathe
For sure, definitely, as in As I live and breathe, I've never seen a more beautiful view. This expression is generally used to emphasize the truth of a statement and has been so used since the mid-1600s, although sometimes it was put simply as
as I live. However, the complete phrase was also used early on, as in Arthur Murphy's 1756 play
The Apprentice (2:1): "As I live and breathe, we shall both be taken, for heaven's sake let us make our escape."
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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