live it up

present singular third person lives it up · participle present living it up · participle past lived it up · past lived it up

1. idiomaticinformalTo enjoy oneself, to have fun.

   Love in an elevator. Livin' it up when I'm going down!

   1989, Aerosmith, Love in an Elevator

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   Just as any grandmother or grandfather will tell you that their best days were spent during the Depression, anyone who was 18 and living it up in 1968 will tell you they spent their better days at this time.

   1978, “Letters”, in TIME

   We're gonna live it up / We're gonna do it / Like we did it before / You and me

   1981, Inner Life, “Live It Up”, in Inner Life

   It is very like the philosophy that opens and closes Yojimbo—that a long life living on gruel in the country is better than short life of living it up in city.

   1999, Donald Richie, The Films of Akira Kurosawa page 174

   You're in the club, living it up / I'm tryin’ not to let the crowd notice me

   2017, “Groupie Love”, in Lust for Life, performed by Lana Del Rey and ASAP Rocky