life of its own

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)An independent existence with some characteristics of life.take on alife of its own1996, George Steiner,Tolstoy or Dostoevsky: An Essay in the Old Criticism, page181:Sartre rejects the notion that an imagined character possesses, in any rational sense, "a life of its own".2002, John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid,The Social Life of Information, page18:[…], information takes on not only a speed of its own, buta life of its own.2003, Kristin Hunter Lattany,The Lakestown Rebellion, page185:A massive hangover witha life of its ownkept Fess pinned to his bed most of Sunday.

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