The phrase is most famously the title of the second James Bond novel by Ian Fleming (1954) and the eighth film in the series (1973). It is a cynical subversion of the common idiom "live and let live" [14, 16].
: There are "Learn English Through Story" resources that provide subtitles for the novel's text to help language learners [5.15]. subtitle Live and Let Die
: Written by Paul McCartney and performed by Wings , the lyrics emphasize doing a "job well" and giving "the other fellow hell" when the world makes you give in [5.5, 5.16]. McCartney later clarified in his Life in Lyrics podcast that for him, the title meant "letting go" of problems rather than literally killing [5.6]. The phrase is most famously the title of