live on borrowed time
Definition
› to continue living after a point at which you might easily have died: Since his cancer was diagnosed, he feels as if he's living on borrowed time.Life and living › to continue to exist longer than expected: It is unlikely that serious decisions will be taken by a minority government living on borrowed time.Life and living
(Definition of live on borrowed time from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- alive adjective
- animate adjective
- cheat death idiom
- co-exist verb
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- last out phrasal verb
- lead verb (LIVE)
- life cycle noun
- life expectancy noun
- life form noun
- life history noun
- life-support system noun
- living adjective (HAVING LIFE)
- living noun (PEOPLE)
- subsist verb
- subsistence noun
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- survival adjective
- survival noun
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