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2023-06-13 02:06
Be in the land of the living humorous phrase
To be awake or alive
He drank himself to silly yesterday, but this morning he is still in the land of the living.
If I do not go to bed by 11 p.m., I will be in the land of the living the whole night.
Used to say that someone is alive, perhaps barely.
This is a biblical idiom: see, for example, Job 28:13: ‘Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living’ or Psalms 52:5: ‘God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living’.
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