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to the life
Resembling exactly, as in She's her sister to the life, or The play's so realistic; the murder is acted out to the life. This idiom uses life in the sense of “a lifelike semblance.” [c. 1600]
Example Sentences
So Araceli and her family said goodbye to the life they had built in the US to join her two brothers in Canada.
“As I walked down that driveway back to the life of the camp, I buried that fear and resolved never to trust anyone other than myself again. That summer at camp, I cemented myself shut.”
In the month before to his filing, Donald wrote, Anwar’s messages “have been relentless” and have included what he perceived to be a threat to the life of his 3-year-old son.
It also feels like an apt companion to Perry’s last fiction feature, 2018’s “Her Smell,” which strongly alludes to the life of Hole lead singer Courtney Love and pays off a chaotic two-hour drama with a breathtakingly lovely final act.
A number of people "linked to the life of the cathedral" were invited to take part in the review by Thirtyone:eight, a group specialising in providing safeguarding advice in church settings.
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