eat, breathe, and sleep
To devote one's time obsessively to.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“She eats, breathes, and sleeps tennis every single day.”
“If you want to become a professional chef, you must eat, breathe, and sleep cooking.”
“The dedicated artist truly eats, breathes, and sleeps her craft, often spending entire nights in the studio perfecting her technique.”
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beauty sleep
Originally, sleep taken before midnight, on the belief that early sleep hours conduce to beauty and health; now (chiefly humorous), sleep at any time needed by one to stay beautiful; (countable) an instance of such sleep.
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big sleep
Death.
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bite to eat
A snack or quick meal.
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breathe a sigh of relief
to be relieved; to feel relief.
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breathe a word
To divulge even part of a secret (usually used with a negative).
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breathe down someone's neck
To follow or supervise someone too closely, causing discomfort for that person.
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breathe easy
To relax or feel secure about something.
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breathe one's last
To die.
Last updated August 10, 2026