живи и жить давай другим

• ЖИВИ И ЖИТЬ ДАВАЙ ДРУГИМ{{}}

[saying; used in all finite forms]

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⇒ be concerned with your own affairs and do not interfere with other people, let them live as they wish (in contemp. usage, sometimes used ironically with reference to people involved in shady dealings):

- ≈ live and let live.

     ♦ Так вот глупо и бесславно закончил свой жизненный путь прокурор Евпраксеин, который родился, может быть, для чего-то хорошего, который хотел, может быть, людям добра, а приносил зло. И сам, как говорится, не жил, и другим жить не давал (Войнович 4). Thus, stupidly and ingloriously, did Prosecutor Evpraksein end his life, he, who, perhaps, had been born to do some good and who perhaps wished people well but did them harm...As the saying goes, he neither lived nor let live (4a).