Meanings
phrase
alternative life's too short
- idiomaticOne should not waste time on trivial issues.
Anyplace for a beer, or coffee, a glass of cognac. I don't know. Ask them where they would like to go. Have fun, for God's sake. Life's too short and youth is even shorter.
1950, Joseph Wechsberg, The Continental Touch, page 23
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