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on borrowed time, live
on borrowed time, live
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]
See also:
borrow
,
live
,
on
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Name
Gender
Pronounced
Usage
GyŐZŐ
DYUU-zuu
Hungarian
Ismo
EES-mo
Finnish
Rowland
['rəulənd]
Mahesh
-
Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Nepali
Navneet
-
Indian (Sikh)
Phobos
FO-bos
(English)
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