on borrowed time, live

Outlive reasonable expectations, as in Our twenty-year-old car is living on borrowed time, or The vet said our dog is living on borrowed time. This expression alludes to time borrowed from death. [Late 1800s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Borislava	bah-ree-SLAH-vah (Russian)	Bulgarian, Serbian, Russian
Jaasau	-	Biblical
Atticus	-	Literature
AscensiÓN	ah-then-SYON (Spanish), ah-sen-SYON (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Pia	PEE-ah (Italian, Danish, German)	Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Polish, Slovene, Late Roman
Inderjeet	-	Indian (Sikh)