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How do you say this in English (US)? I know you can't say 'let it lie' instead of "leave it" in english. I'd like to know how that is. Why not " live and let lie" ?
How do you say this in English (US)? I know you can't say 'let it lie' instead of "leave it" in english. I'd like to know how that is. Why not " live and let lie" ?
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- English (US)
Life is a noun.
Live and let live is the expression. To live and to lie are different words.
You could say: “Leave it be” or “let it be” (The Beatles) but this is a very poetic way of speaking.
Let it lie does not work. Something can lie there but you can’t let it lie.
- English (US)
The saying "live and let live" is a fixed phrase in English. The James Bond film "Live and Let Die" is based on that.
In other cases, you should say which object is there. For example, another saying is "Let sleeping dogs lie."
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Thanks, that helped alot !
My dog Fido is up to eat a nice turd from the ground...
In english: No Fido, leave it !
? Let awfull turds lie ?
Germans would say smt. Like :
Fido let that !
Let lie !
So when there's another noun that's fine ?
Could I say:
Sue currently works at night, I let her lie in bed some more.
?
My dog Fido is up to eat a nice turd from the ground...
In english: No Fido, leave it !
? Let awfull turds lie ?
Germans would say smt. Like :
Fido let that !
Let lie !
So when there's another noun that's fine ?
Could I say:
Sue currently works at night, I let her lie in bed some more.
?
- English (US)
My dog, Fido, is about to eat a nice turd on the ground.
No Fido! Leave it!
Let awful turds lie sounds funny but no one would say it
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- English (US)
@Heinz-Ooal-Gown to be up to something.
Es bedeute das jemend macht etwas geheim. Sie plane etwas geheim und vielleicht böse.
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