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living on borrowed time

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living on borrowed time
if someone is living on borrowed time, they are not expected to live much longer I've got cancer - I'm living on borrowed time.
See hell on earth
See also: borrow, living, time


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Now my companion is gone, and for the past 15 years I have been living on borrowed time, lonely but buoyed by memories of two loving men.
Who knew the great Melting Pot Nation of America has been living on borrowed time for the last few centuries by not strictly enforcing an English-only rule among the huddled masses and wretched refuse who show up here ?
freshwater systems, may be living on borrowed time.
 
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