living on borrowed time


live on borrowed time

To live or exist in a temporary and/or tenuous position, which may come to an end suddenly and abruptly. Accidents and disease can strike so unexpectedly that it feels like we're all living on borrowed time.See also: borrow, live, on, time

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. You are living on borrowed time, so make the best of it.See also: borrow, live, on, time

living on borrowed time

continuing to survive against expectations (used with the implication that this will not be for much longer).See also: borrow, living, on, time