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Eat Drink and Be Merry
This phrase originates from the Bible (Luke 12:19), where Jesus is telling
a parable. The parable is about a man who stores up food for years to
come and then tells himself: "Soul, you have many goods laid up for
years to come; take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry." This is
often used as a positive phrase nowadays ("Let's eat, drink, and
be merry!"), but in the parable God then refers to the man as a "fool",
because his life ended that very day. The point was that whom had he stored
up all of this stuff for, because he "can't take it with him."
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