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you only live once

you only live once is the alternative form of you only go around once.

Meaning of you only go around once

Proverb

you only go around once

  1. A person has only one lifetime, and should therefore take every opportunity to enjoy a wide variety of experiences in order to maximize their achievements and satisfaction.
    • Young men washed in the ecstasy of macho male companionship rode a jeep through barren country and embraced at a bar piled up with beer cans. "You only go around once," the announcer said.1979, Kate Braverman, chapter 3, in Lithium for Medea: A Novel, published 2011, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    YOLO

Synonyms of you only live once

Questions about you only live once

What is you only live once the alternative form of?
You only live once is the alternative form of you only go around once.

Words near you only live once in the dictionary

  1. you never miss the water until the well runs dry
  2. you OK
  3. you only get what you give
  4. you only go around once
  5. you only go around once in life
  6. you only live once
  7. you pays your money and you takes your chances
  8. you pays your money and you takes your choice
  9. you pays your nickel and you takes your chances
  10. you pays your nickel and you takes your choice
  11. you people

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Adapted from Wiktionary: you only live once (page history and authors); you only go around once (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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