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
Xuan	-	Spanish
Alphonzo	al-FAHN-zo	English (Rare)
Iolyn	-	Welsh
Aleksandra	ah-lyek-SAHN-drah (Russian), ah-leek-SAHN-drah (Russian), ahl-ek-SAHN-drah (Polish)	Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian, Estonian
Wendell	['wendl]
Laila (2)	LIE-lah	Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish