OXFORD 9000
📚 phrase • entry_id 55855

as I live and breathe

/æz aɪ lɪv ænd bɹiːð/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
en carne y hueso
Used to declare the truth of a statement with emphasis.
I hid in one of the empty rooms, and I saw you go by, yes, and as I live and breathe, Liscom Truro, I saw my father following you.
[O]ch, as I live and breathe, I would consider myself worse than the beast of the field, if I would be so ungrateful to my lady, who is now in distress.
como que vivo y respiro
Used to express surprise at an experience one is witnessing.
Eh? What? Mercy alive! Hilda—Hilda, look here! Bab, as I live and breathe!
Well, well, as I live and breathe, it's Svend! My, what a great and dangerously huge fellow you have become!
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