Welcome to English in a Minute. To live it up means to have a very good and exciting
time. But the phrase to never live something down has a very different meaning.
Anna, did you try the cake I made for George's birthday?
A bite. One bite. Dan, it was kind of the talk of the party.
Oh no, it was that bad? I may have forgotten to add sugar.
That's bad, Dan. That's bad. I'm never going to live this down.
To never live something down means that people will not forget that you made a big mistake
or did something embarrassing. People just don't forget others' mistakes that easily.
And that's English in a Minute.