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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Stoddard	['stɔdəd]
Appert	[ə'peə]
Phineas	FIN-ee-əs (English)	Biblical
Zeno	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized), Italian
Dorothea	do-ro-TE-ah (German), dawr-ə-THEE-ə (English)	German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, English, Late Greek
Roxana	rahk-SAN-ə (English), rok-SAHN-ah (Spanish)	English, Spanish, Romanian, Ancient Greek (Latinized)