live and let live

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   used to say that you should accept other people's opinions and behaviour even though they are different from your own

   Live and let live. That's very important, isn't it? Molto, molto.

In the movies · 3

• - Hey, you! - Live and let live, sir!A Night to Remember1958
• Live and let live. That's very important, isn't it? Molto, molto.Shine1996
• There ain't no live and let live with bugs.Tombstone1993
• but we practice live and let live.The Man from Earth2007
• - Hell, yes. Live and let live. - Live and let live.A Simple Plan1998
• -Please, just let me live, just let me live! -Shut up and let him drive!Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen2009

Learn it in full scenes

• A Night to Remember1958
  • Lightoller Jokes About Titanic Soap
  • Titanic Sets Sail
  • Titanic's Ice Warnings Go Unheard

From the same entry

• live and breathe
• live by your wits
• live hand to mouth
• live in the past
• live in sin
• live it up
• live a lie
• live off the fat of the land
• live off the land
• live to fight another day
• you haven't lived
• you live and learn

More proverbs

• nothing ventured nothing gained
• rob peter to pay paul
• the pot calling the kettle black
• there's safety in numbers
• the more the merrier
• a penny for your thoughts
• two wrongs don't make a right
• boys will be boys
• make hay while the sun shines
• no time like the present
• the exception that proves the rule
• the writing is on the wall