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
Evdokiya	yev-dah-KEE-yah (Russian), eev-dah-KEE-yah (Russian)	Bulgarian, Russian
DÁNiel	DAH-nee-el (Hungarian)	Hungarian, Faroese
Deeann	dee-AN	English
Reine	RHEN	French
Chet	CHET	English
Cleena	-	Irish