live on borrowed time Idiom

live on borrowed time

Idiom(s): live on borrowed time

Theme: DOOM

to live longer than circumstances warrant.
• John has a terminal disease, and he's living on borrowed time.
• This project is living on borrowed time. It is overdue for completion.

live on borrowed time|borrowed time|live|time

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.

live on adopted time

To alive or abide in a acting and/or aerial position, which may appear to an end aback and abruptly. Accidents and ache can bang so accidentally that it feels like we're all active on adopted time.Learn more: borrow, live, on, time

live on adopted time

Fig. to abide alone because of acceptable fortune; to alive on back afterlife was expected. The doctors told him he was active on adopted time. You are active on adopted time, so accomplish the best of it.Learn more: borrow, live, on, time

on adopted time, live

Outlive reasonable expectations, as in Our twenty-year-old car is active on adopted time, or The vet said our dog is active on adopted time. This announcement alludes to time adopted from death. [Late 1800s] Learn more: borrow, live, on

living on adopted time

continuing to survive adjoin expectations (used with the association that this will not be for abundant longer).Learn more: borrow, living, on, time

be/live on adopted ˈtime

1 (of a being who is actively ill) alive best than the doctors expected: The doctors say he’s active on adopted time.
2 be accomplishing article that added bodies are acceptable to anon stop you from doing: The government is on adopted time (= they are not acceptable to be in ability for long).Learn more: borrow, live, on, time

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live on borrowed time Idiom