Meanings
verblive and die by (third-person singular simple present lives and dies by, present participle living and dying by, simple past and past participle lived and died by)
present singular third person lives and dies by · participle present living and dying by · participle past lived and died by · past lived and died by
- idiomaticBe completely reliant upon.
The e-commerce industry lives and dies by metrics, a few of which give us some grasp over this phenomenon.
2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian
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