live on borrowed time
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.
to continue to exist longer than expected:
It is unlikely that serious decisions will be made by a CEO living on borrowed time.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Life and living
- alive
- animate
- borrow
- cheat
- cheat death idiom
- co-exist
- hold
- immortal
- inanimate
- last
- last out
- lead 1
- life cycle
- life expectancy
- living
- longevity
- outlive
- subsist
- subsistence
- survivable
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