live on (after someone or something)

live on (after someone or something)
live on (after someone or something)
to be remembered long after someone or something might otherwise be forgotten or dead, in the case of persons. •

His good works will live on long after him.

Fears of war will live on after the actual conf lict.

I hope my memory lives on.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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