Usually means: Tolerate others' choices and behaviors.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word live and let live:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. live and let live: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. live and let live: Merriam-Webster
  3. live and let live: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. live and let live: Collins English Dictionary
  5. live and let live: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. live-and-let-live, live and let live: Wiktionary
  7. Live and let live: Dictionary.com
  8. Live and Let Live (Twelfth Night album), Live and Let Live, Live and let live (World War I): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Live and let live, live and let live: ESL Idiom Page

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. live and let live: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Live and Let Live: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (live and let live)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To be tolerant; to enjoy the pleasures and opportunities which life offers and to allow others to do the same.

Similar:
breathe freely, enjoy oneself, take kindly, delight in, have it easy, long live, have a good one, keep it real, allow, play fair, more...

Opposite:
intolerance, bigotry, narrow-mindedness

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Similar:
breathe freely, enjoy oneself, take kindly, delight in, have it easy, long live, have a good one, keep it real, allow, play fair, more...

Opposite:
intolerance, bigotry, narrow-mindedness



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