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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 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.
Big love and hate by Kowalik, R.J. / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
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 ?
The decline of the English speaking peoples: America's national ... by Gillespie, Nick / Reason
freshwater systems, may be living on borrowed time.
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