proverb
Meaning 1
Life is short, so you should enjoy it while you can.
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Phrase guide
eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die
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proverb
Meaning 2
In speaking pejoratively of epicurean beliefs.
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History
Etymology
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.