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Idiom

eat, breathe, and sleep

Meaning

To devote one's time obsessively to.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“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.”

Examples

simple

“She eats, breathes, and sleeps tennis every single day.”

contextual

“If you want to become a professional chef, you must eat, breathe, and sleep cooking.”

complex

“The dedicated artist truly eats, breathes, and sleeps her craft, often spending entire nights in the studio perfecting her technique.”

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