Make life easier for yourself or on yourself?

[enthusiastic learner]

Is it also possible that they are interchangeable?

It will be easier on yourself if you eat carrots.

It will be easier for yourself if you eat carrots.

 

[Rover_KE]

I'd say 'Go easy on yourself' and 'Make life easy for yourself'.

 

[bhaisahab]

Is it also possible that they are interchangeable?

It will be easier on yourself if you eat carrots.

It will be easier for yourself if you eat carrots.

How does eating carrots make one's life easier?

 

[enthusiastic learner]

How does eating carrots make one's life easier?

It was the first thing that popped into my head. I couldn't think of another example. Heh.

 

[emsr2d2]

Let's assume, then, that eating carrots does actually make one's life easier. If you want to start with "It will be ..." then I suggest it should read "It will be easier for you if you eat carrots". I wouldn't use "yourself" for that construction.

 

[Grumpy]

How does eating carrots make one's life easier?

It works for Bugs Bunny....

 

[BobK]

I'd say 'Go easy on yourself' and 'Make life easy for yourself'.

I'd agree. But make it easy on... is growing in popularity. I think I first met it in the '60s, in a Doors song: 'Make it easy on yourself'.

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[Tdol]

I'd agree. But make it easy on... is growing in popularity. I think I first met it in the '60s, in a Doors song: 'Make it easy on yourself'.

b

The Walker Brothers - Make It Easy On Yourself - YouTube ;-)

 

[BobK]

Doors...Walker Brothers... whichever. ;-)

b

 

[bhaisahab]

Doors...Walker Brothers... whichever. ;-)

b

I can't believe you said that, Bob!

 

[5jj]

I can't believe you said that, Bob!

Hey, dude, chill, mellow, cool ...whatever.

 

[BobK]

I can't believe you said that, Bob!

Well it wasn't a musical observation. I just meant that the specific groups' names were a bit shrouded by my memory of being a pre-teenager and disapproving heartily of long-haired ne'er-do-wells in general (especially the ones my big sister was swooning over). ;-)

b

 

[BobK]

PS Also 'Walker Brothers'/'Doobie Brothers'/'Doors' occupy overlapping spaces in my memory. (I'll stop digging now. ;-))

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