live and die by en · VERB
Meanings
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(idiomatic) Be 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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| living and dying by | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| lived and died by | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| lived and died by | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| lives and dies by | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |