Talk:live on

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live on

Looks a little SOP --Maria.Sion (talk) 20:44, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To survive solely by consuming a certain thing.

   When he was in the rainforest, he lived on bugs and rainwater.

2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To endure.

How is this SOP exactly? It doesn't mean (deprecated template usage) live + (deprecated template usage) on. 50 Xylophone Players talk 20:50, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

I think it does; for one thing, it's synonymous with "survive on" and "subsist on". And I think this is the same sense of "on" as in "this medicine must be taken on an empty stomach", or "we drove five hundred miles on half a tank of gas". Additionally, you can say "he lived for years on bugs and rainwater", and you can't say *"he lived them on" (meaning "he lived on them"). (Note: I'm not arguing for deletion. I'm just trying to show you how it's SOP.) —Ruakh_TALK 21:04, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

The second sense uses (deprecated template usage) on. Examples with other verbs are "walk/drive/run on", "talk/prattle/drone on".

The first sense uses (deprecated template usage) on. I am not convinced that this is the same as "on an empty stomach", but I think it is like the figurative sense "They won on sheer determination." as well as the sense used in the other examples. DCDuring TALK 22:43, 4 June 2012 (UTC)

Keep the second definition, convert the first definition to {{&lit|live|on}} with the same {{usex}}. It can be rephrase to survive on, etc. Mglovesfun (talk) 19:59, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Isn't the second using the same sense of on as in party on, amble on, prattle on, write on, walk on, drive on, flow on, continue on, ramble on and many. many others? What makes it and the others lexical units? DCDuring TALK 00:29, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

I was just thinking the same as DCDuring and wanted to mention some examples. --BiblbroX дискашн 08:26, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Kept as no consensus. — Ungoliant ^(Falai) 04:16, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

2. Same as live off

2.  Same as live off (rely on financially: He lived off his parents)

--Backinstadiums (talk) 12:16, 4 May 2020 (UTC)