“On days like this, one feels that Schopenhauer is wrong after all, and that life is something really worth living for.”- Grant Allen: The Curate of Churnside.Large as life. Of the same size as the object represented.
On my life. I will answer for it by my life; as, “Il le fera j'en répondes sur ma vie.”
To bear a charmed life. To escape accidents in a marvellous manner.
To know life. In French, “Savoir vivre” - that is, “Savoir ce que c'est que de vivre.” “Not to know life,” is the contrary- “Ne savoir pas ce que c'est que de vivre.”
To the life. In exact imitation. “Done to the life.” “Faire le portrait de quelqu'un au naturel” (or) “daprès nature.”
Life-boat (A). A boat rendered especially buoyant for the purpose of saving those who are in peril of their life at sea.
Life-buoy (A). A float to sustain two or more persons in danger of being drowned at sea.
Life-Guards Two senior regiments of the mounted body-guard, comprising 878 men, all six feet high; hence, a fine, tall, manly fellow is called “a regular Life-guardsman.”
Life Policy (A). An assurance to be paid after the death of the person.
Life Preserver (A). A buoyant jacket, belt, or other appliance, to support the human body in water; also a loaded staff or knuckle-duster for self-defence.
Lift To have one at a lift is to have one in your power. When a wrestler has his antagonist in his hands
and lifts him from the ground, he has him “at a lift,” or in his power.
“ `Sirra,' says he, `I have you at a lift.Lift not up your Horn on High (Psalm lxxv. 5.) Do not behave scornfully, maliciously, or arrogantly. (See under Horn.)
Now you are come unto your latest shift.' ”
Percy: Reliques; Gay and Amarant
Lift up the Heel against Me (To). To kick me (physically or morally); to treat with contumely or contempt: to
oppose, to become an enemy. As an unruly horse kicks the master who trusts and feeds him.
“Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted his heel against me.”- Psalm xli. 9.