eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die

短语

别名

eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die

释义与例句

prov.
  1. 1.

    Life is short, so you should enjoy it while you can.

  2. 2.

    In speaking pejoratively of epicurean beliefs.

词源

A conflation of two Biblical references: * Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry * Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we [shall] die A direct quote from the Book of Mormon: * Yea, and there shall be many which shall say: Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die; and it shall be well with us.

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