live and let live

by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[live and let live] To live in the way you prefer and let others live as they wish without being bothered by you.

* /Father scolds Mother because she wears her hair in curlers and Mother scolds Father because he smokes a smelly pipe. Grandfather says it's her hair and his pipe; live and let live./

Compare: GIVE AND TAKE(1), LET BYGONES BE BYGONES, FORGIVE AND FORGET.

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	bother ⁴⁶

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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