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as I live and breathe
Idioms and Phrases
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.”Example Sentences
Julia Stiles, as I live and breathe!
“The single great war of my life has been against fragmentation and for wholeness, against labels and for identity,” he wrote in his 1969 memoir, “As I Live and Breathe.”
Now, as I live and breathe, this is pleasant: Rose, his man played and sung for him, and he, it seems, did not know when he should give over.
Father Coughlin, as I live and breathe!
As I live and breathe and do the bidding of the lords of Florence, the accursed Medici—I have told the truth.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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