live on borrowed time



live on borrowed time

Fig. to exist only because of good fortune; to live on when death was expected. The doctors told him he was living on borrowed time. You are living on borrowed time, so make the best of it.
See also: borrow, live, on, time

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Ruzha-Bulgarian, Macedonian
Farr[fa:]
Masoud-Arabic, Persian
Fri&Eth;Rika-Icelandic
Yenifer-Spanish (Latin American)
Sample['sæmpl]