live down

VERB
  1. live so as to annul some previous behavior
    You can never live this down!
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How To Use live down In A Sentence

  • She found it hard to live down her reputation as a second-rate actress.
  • the tenants live downstairs
  • Labour was also unable to live down its reputation as the party of high taxes.
  • I live downtown because I don't want that kind of peace and quiet.
  • As any schoolchild knows, hares don't live down burrows, rabbits do; hares live above ground at all times.
  • Thanks to him and black_samvara i am never going to live down the 'legless' comment ... although ... if it means juffles kneeling in front of me more often then well ... who am i to complain? October 24th, 2005
  • Pedals live down in the footwell, where you cannot see them, or your feet, but they are all there, plus a foot rest for the left leg - an important part of any race car engineering.
  • While NBC's woes are well documented and in most cases self-inflicted — especially during the Zucker era, and the network may never live down that Jay Leno prime-time debacle — this overgeneralization that NBC has nothing of merit is unfair. Ask Matt: Dance, Downton Abbey, CSI, Guilty Pleasures and More!
  • Labour was also unable to live down its reputation as the party of high taxes.
  • And they've evolved perfectly to live down here in the dark.
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