to live the dream
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4.2
- idiom
- Informal
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vivir el sueño
- After years of hard work, she finally opened her own bakery and is now living the dream.
- just living the dream
- keep living the dream
- still living the dream
But today, my friends, we are living the dream.
- But today, my friends, we are living the dream.
- I think ours was called Ltd and it was living the dream.
- I think you get that sweet and you add that heat, buddy, you're living the dream.
- But if your car has a stove in it, oh, then you're just living the dream.
- Dusty and Sarah have Starlink so I get to live the dream today, be in the middle of nature and have Internet.
- He's living an American dream, and his children will never have to risk their lives to live the dream as well.
- And in the new book, the thing I sort of talk about there is that if you're healthy, you're already living the dream.
- Like I don't so, So what it felt like going on one hand, I was like, I'm like living the dream.
- And I want you to live the dream because I'm not living the dream because I'm special.
- And yeah, I was living the dream for sure.
- I have nightmares more than I dream, but I'm living the dream.
- I, I, I like to see him maybe, you know, doing some carpentry up in Alaska, living the dream, going to counseling.
Examples
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My teammates helped me live the dream.
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I really am living the dream.
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I mean, the four of us are living the dream here, and we finally get to share that.
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We're all trying to live the dream while saving money.
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Until then, we get to live the dream and prepare for the inevitable.
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Russ and Suzanne, a couple that is living the dream.
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Jory Harcourt is finally living the dream.
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Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, we hope you're riding high and living the dream.
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Sonders is young, and he's successfully living the dream as a photographer.
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Bio: I am a freelance web designer living the dream in Cyprus.
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Synonyms
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1.0
To feel happy and satisfied with your daily life
How Fulfilling
- Informal
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4.2
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3.1
- Informal
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3.4
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3.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to experience the life you have always wanted' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'live' (to have or experience a way of life) with 'dream' (an aspiration or desired outcome). This compositional pattern (live + noun representing a state/aspiration) is common and cross-linguistically accessible, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Live the dream may come from the picture of someone really living inside a perfect dream, where everything feels easy and wonderful. So it now means 'to experience the life you want'.