как живете-можете?

• КАК ЖИВЕШЬ-МОЖЕШЬ (ЖИВЕТЕ-МОЖЕТЕ)? old-fash, coll

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⇒ (a question asked upon meeting a friend or acquaintance) how are you?:

- how are you doing (getting on, getting along)?;

- how's it going?;

- how're things going?;

- how goes it?;

- how's life (the world) treating you?

     ♦ [Аграфена Кондратьевна:] Садиться милости просим; как живёте-можете? (Островский 10). [А.К.:] Please sit down, won't you? How are you getting along? (10b) [A.K.:] Sit down, you're more than welcome. How're things going? (10a).

     ♦ [author's usage] [Ислаев (... оборачивается ко входящему Беляеву): ] А... это вы! Ну... ну, как можете? [Беляев:] Слава богу, Аркадий Сергеич (Тургенев 1). [I. (...turns to Beliayev, who has just entered):] Oh, it's you...well, how goes it? [B.:] Very well, thank you, Arkady Sergey ich (Id).