LIVE ON BORROWED TIME
live on borrowed time: translation
live on borrowed time
Fig. to exist only because of good fortune; to live on when death was expected. •
The doctors told him he was living on borrowed time.
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You are living on borrowed time, so make the best of it.
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{v. phr.} To live or last longer than was expected. * /Ever since his operation, Harvey felt he was living on borrowed time./ * /Mr. Brown was living on borrowed time because a year ago the doctors had told him he would only live six months./