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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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Byline: Ian Wilkerson LABOUR put forward their proposals for the new session of parliament yesterday, but the bookmakers remain convinced that Gordon Brown's government is living on borrowed time.
Brown still wallowing in mire; POLITICS by The Racing Post (London, England)
In the 1960s and 1970s, drivers, less cocooned by corporate concerns and strapped into what were often four-wheel death-traps, were acutely aware they could be living on borrowed time.
Formula One: Girls, glamour fuel racing dreams by AFP / AFP Global Edition
I heard a theory yesterday that unless a British manager speaks with a pronounced accent - be it Scouse, Geordie, Irish or whatever - then he is always living on borrowed time.
RESULT!: Wigan put accent on finding a boss; IN ASSOCIATION WITH ... by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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