to enjoy life
- phrasal verb
- After finishing her work, she took a moment to enjoy life and savor the beauty around her.
And even if you can't, enjoy life wherever and whenever you can.
- And even if you can't, enjoy life wherever and whenever you can.
- Catfish, Jake, enjoy life a little bit more.
- I just want you guys to enjoy life and have fun.
- I, I don't want to die because I enjoy life so much.
- But now that it's happened, for whatever reason, she enjoys life enough to live.
- But just be responsible for yourself and just enjoy life and just keep moving forward and love life.
- Live debt free, call your house an asset and enjoy life.
- To be less fun, to enjoy life less.
- You want to live life, you want to enjoy life.
- That stops you from growing and really thoroughly enjoying life.
Examples
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We would relax, enjoy life.
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Enjoy life before it's gone.
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My focus really is I want to enjoy life, bottom line.
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I just want you guys to enjoy life and have fun.
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Balance is key and you have to enjoy life, otherwise there is no point, guys.
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Perhaps what parents are saying is that they want to serve and enjoy life both at home and in the world.
Academic text (2002) -
What changes will help you enjoy life more, and help yourself as well as others?
Blog text (13) -
"One of the things I believe, if you want to know, is that we're here to enjoy life.
Fiction book (2002) -
Indeed, my city knew how to live, how to enjoy life.
Fiction book (1994) -
Son, enjoy life whenever and wherever you can.
Synonyms
To enjoy something very much
To enjoy something very much
To enjoy and be thankful for each moment
To enjoy doing something a lot
Take pleasure in what you do, not only the result
Antonyms
How Happy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to take pleasure in living' is directly and compositionally derived from 'enjoy' (to find pleasurable) plus 'life' (one's existence), so a learner who knows both words can infer the MWE meaning. This is a common, literal verb + noun collocation that follows cross-linguistic patterns and is immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Enjoy life comes from the simple image of the verb enjoy applied to life, like someone tasting good food, laughing with friends, or watching a sunset and stopping to feel happy. So it means 'to take pleasure in living'.