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live, horse, and you will get grass

If you persist through difficulty, you will eventually reap benefits. The phrase of encouragement comes from a story of a farmer who plants grass for his horse and tells the horse to live until the grass has time to grow. Yeah, but if your business can survive this recession, all of your hard work will pay off. As the saying goes, "Live, horse and you will get grass."
See also: and, get, grass, will
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

live

mod. cool; great. Everything’s live! No problem!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) sure as you live
  • (it's) better to be a live dog than a dead lion
  • (one) hasn't lived (until)
  • a live dog is better than a dead lion
  • a live one
  • a live wire
  • alive (live) and kicking (well)
  • alive and kicking
  • all the way live
  • around
  • as I live and breathe
  • As I live and breathe!
  • be in a world of (one's) own
  • be, live, etc. in a world of your own
  • be/live in each other's pockets
  • be/live on borrowed time
  • best of both worlds
  • borrowed time, on
  • can't live with them, can't live without them
  • day to day
  • eat to live, not live to eat
  • fools build houses and wise men live in them
  • get (one) where (one) lives
  • go live
  • hand to mouth, exist/live from
  • have one's wits about one, to
  • have to live with
  • have to live with (something)
  • he who fights and runs away may live to fight another day
  • He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day
  • high off the hog, eat
  • high off the hog, to eat/live
  • hit (one) where (one) lives
  • hit where you live
  • I can live with that
  • in a world of own
  • in an ivory tower
  • in clover, to be/live
  • in one's pocket
  • in the boondocks
  • in the fast lane
  • in the poorhouse
  • king is dead, long live the king, the
  • lead a dog's life
  • lead the life of Riley
  • lead/live the life of Reilly/Riley
  • learn to live with
  • learn to live with (someone or something)
  • live
  • live (life) on the edge
  • live (one's) own life
  • live (something) over again
  • live a charmed existence
  • live a charmed life
  • live a dog's life
  • live a lie
  • live a life of
  • live a life of (something)
  • live a life of Reilly
  • live a life of Riley
  • live above
  • live above (someone or something)
  • live among
  • live among (someone)
  • live and breathe (something)
  • live and breathe something
  • live and kicking
  • live and learn
  • live and let live
  • live and well
  • live apart
  • live apart (from someone)
  • live beyond (one's) means
  • live beyond means
  • live beyond/within your means
  • live by
  • live by one's wits
  • live by the sword, die by the sword
  • live by wits
  • live by your wits
  • live by/on (one's) wits
  • live by/on your wits
  • live dangerously
  • live dangerously, to
  • live down
  • live for
  • live for (someone or something)
  • live for the moment
  • live from day to day
  • live from hand to mouth
  • live hand to mouth
  • live happily ever after
  • live high off the hog
  • live high on the hog
  • live in
  • live in (one's) head rent-free
  • live in (one's) pocket
  • live in a fool's paradise
  • live in a glass house
  • live in a tree
  • live in a world of (one's) own
  • live in an/(one's) ivory tower
  • live in cloud-cuckoo land
  • live in cotton wool
  • live in each other's pockets
  • live in hope
  • live in hope of
  • live in hope of (something)
  • live in hope(s)
  • live in sin
  • live in sin, to
  • live in someone's pocket
  • live in the past
  • live in the present
  • live it up
  • live large
  • live like a king
  • live like a maggot in bacon
  • live like a prince, to
  • live like fighting cocks
  • live long and prosper
  • live next door
  • live next door (to one)
  • live off
  • live off (of) (one's) (own) hump
  • live off (of) (someone or something)
  • live off smell of an oily rag
  • live off the backs of (someone)
  • live off the backs of someone
  • live off the fat of the land
  • live off the grid
  • live off the land
  • live off/on the fat of the land
  • live on
  • live on (one's) (own) hump
  • live on (one's) nerves
  • live on (one's) own
  • live on a shoestring
  • live on an amount of money
  • live on borrowed time
  • live on own
  • live on the smell of an oil rag
  • live on the smell of an oily rag
  • live on your hump
  • live on your nerves
  • live out
  • live out (the rest of) (one's) days
  • live out (the rest of) (one's) life
  • live out days
  • live out of (one's) car
  • live out of (something)
  • live out of a suitcase
  • live out of a/(one's) suitcase
  • live out of cans
  • live over
  • live over the brush
  • live over the shop
  • live paycheck to paycheck
  • live payslip to payslip
  • live rent-free in (one's) head
  • live rough
  • live the life of Reilly
  • live the life of Riley
  • live through
  • live through (something)
  • live to
  • live to a ripe old age
  • live to do
  • live to fight another day
  • live to tell the tale
  • live to the age of
  • live together
  • live under
  • live under a rock
  • live under the cat's foot
  • live under the same roof
  • live up to
  • live up to (one's) end of the bargain
  • live up to (one's) side of the bargain
  • live up to (one's)/its reputation
  • live up to (someone's) expectations
  • live up to (something)
  • live up to end of the bargain
  • live up to your/its reputation
  • live wire
  • live with
  • live with (someone or something)
  • live within
  • live within (one's) means
  • live within means
  • live without
  • live your own life
  • live, horse, and you will get grass
  • live/sleep rough
  • live-tweet
  • living the dream
  • man cannot live by bread alone
  • man does not live by bread alone
  • marked man
  • never live (something) down
  • off campus
  • on borrowed time, live
  • on the edge
  • People (who live) in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
  • people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
  • spend the rest of (one's) days
  • spend the rest of (one's) life
  • sure as God made little green apples
  • the king is dead, long live the king!
  • they that live longest see most
  • those who live by the sword, die by the sword
  • those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
  • thoughts to live by
  • where (one) lives
  • where you live
  • words to live by
  • you can't live with them, you can't live without them
  • you haven't lived
  • you only live once
References in classic literature
Yet some, not wise, go to the other side of the globe, to barbarous and unhealthy regions, and devote themselves to trade for ten or twenty years, in order that they may live -- that is, keep comfortably warm -- and die in New England at last.
Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there, but to transact some private business with the fewest obstacles; to be hindered from accomplishing which for want of a little common sense, a little enterprise and business talent, appeared not so sad as foolish.
Moreover, I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what he has heard of other men's lives; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land; for if he has lived sincerely, it must have been in a distant land to me.
Practically, the old have no very important advice to give the young, their own experience has been so partial, and their lives have been such miserable failures, for private reasons, as they must believe; and it may be that they have some faith left which belies that experience, and they are only less young than they were.
We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
I fear you will run us too deep in debt: when shall we be able to make return for it all?' I smiled, and told him that is was all paid for; and then I told him, that what our circumstances might expose us to, I had not taken my whole stock with me, that I had reserved so much in my friend's hands, which now we were come over safe, and was settled in a way to live, I had sent for, as he might see.
'For,' said he, 'it was no fault of yours, nor of his; it was a mistake impossible to be prevented.' He only reproached him with desiring me to conceal it, and to live with him as a wife, after I knew that he was my brother; that, he said, was a vile part.
My husband remained there some time after me to settle our affairs, and at first I had intended to go back to him, but at his desire I altered that resolution, and he is come over to England also, where we resolve to spend the remainder of our years in sincere penitence for the wicked lives we have lived.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
'Ah!' said the man, dolefully, 'my wife wants to live in a stone castle.' 'Go home, then,' said the fish; 'she is standing at the gate of it already.' So away went the fisherman, and found his wife standing before the gate of a great castle.
'now we will live cheerful and happy in this beautiful castle for the rest of our lives.' 'Perhaps we may,' said the wife; 'but let us sleep upon it, before we make up our minds to that.' So they went to bed.
Now we shall never have anything more to wish for as long as we live.' 'I don't know how that may be,' said she; 'never is a long time.
Fairy Tales
But this we know, you and I: the tribe lives. The tribe never dies.
Jerry of the Islands
The form live as used in those sentences is the basic, everyday form of the verb.
Living A Healthy Life
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