to live a good life
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3.1
- idiom
:
vivir una buena vida
- After years of hard work, he felt content and knew that he had finally learned how to live a good life.
How does this help them live a better life?
- How does this help them live a better life?
- I just want to live a good life kind of thing.
- If I help someone, I've done what I need to do to live a good life.
- So I was doing AQ and A and talking about basically how you live a good life.
- And I guess that's the current and never ending battle, right, of a person who wants to live a good life and the government who wants what's good for the government.
- My cat Kitsky, AKA Katsky, died peacefully in her sleep and she lived a good life.
- Yeah, if you don't do that, then you have not lived a good life.
- I just make a lot of money and then live a good life in the US Yeah, but I came, I came out of India, but the India didn't come out of me.
- So I don't like restrictions and having to walk on egg shells because I don't live a good life like that.
Examples
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The veteran has tried to live a good life in order to redeem the horrors of war and give meaning to the sacrifices so many have made.
Academic text (1999) -
It's served me really well running my businesses, but also trying to live a good life.
Blog text (30) -
We were gonna travel the world- - and live a good life.
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"Indeed, those who do what is right" "will live a good life."
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It's about learning to live a good life on less money.
Blog text (22) -
We felt it was important to be able to guide him as parents to live a good life.
Blog text (29) -
I know of men who live in that range of finances and they live a good life, believe it or not.
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You live a good life, Moira.
Fiction book (2002) -
They had come to believe that she held the secret of how to live a good life.
Academic text (2006) -
The time seems ripe for a book asking how to live a good life in the twenty-first century, and how such a life might depend on a resurrection of the rule of law, a revivified political liberty, and religion.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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1.0
To feel happy and satisfied with your daily life
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4.2
To have the life you always wanted after hard work
How Fulfilling
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to have a fulfilling, happy, and morally positive existence' is directly and compositionally derived from 'live' (to have life), 'good' (positive/moral), and 'life' (existence); the adjective-noun combination 'good life' is transparent. This is a common, cross-linguistic concept and follows standard English syntax, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Live a good life comes from old ideas that life should be cared for like a garden. One popular image is a person tending plants, removing weeds and watering them so the garden grows strong, which shows how small good actions make life better. That's why it means 'to be happy and do the right things'.