like there were no tomorrow



Like this video? Subscribe to our free daily email and get a new idiom video every day!

like there were no tomorrow

Very rapidly and eagerly; without restraint or thought (i.e., as if there won't be another opportunity, so one must do something as much or as quickly as possible). He must have been starving, because Jonathan started wolfing down his food like there were no tomorrow! Every time Kevin goes out shopping, he starts spending money like there were no tomorrow.
See also: like, tomorrow

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Guilhermegee-LYER-məPortuguese
Behar-Albanian
Marcelamahr-THE-lah (Spanish), mahr-SE-lah (Latin American Spanish), mahr-TSE-lah (Polish), mahr-CHE-lah (Romanian), MAHR-tse-lah (Czech)Spanish, Polish, Romanian, Czech
Mnason-Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek, Ancient Greek
MÁRk-Hungarian
Ejiro-Western African, Urhobo