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Definition of live on borrowed time
live on borrowed time
verb
- to be close to death.
Citation from "Reconstructing Alice", Raines (TV), Season 1 Episode 3 (2007) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.Last edited on Jan 02 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jan 02 2011.
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Other terms relating to 'borrow': | |
| Definitions include: to take some of a person's time. | |
| Definitions include: to go to the bathroom. | |
Other terms relating to 'live': | |
| Definitions include: inquiry into one's current well-being. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "live action role-playing." | |
| Definitions include: "cool". | |
| Definitions include: to do something fun or not boring. | |
| Definitions include: Enjoy oneself. | |
| Definitions include: to be wealthy or lead a lifestyle that requires wealth. | |
| Definitions include: To live with the present being the most important; to live a dream or to understand the unchanging world, so to speak. | |
| Definitions include: an energetic person. | |
| Definitions include: a document meant to be continuously updated. | |
| Definitions include: an extremely unpleasant place to be. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "you only live once." | |
Other terms relating to 'on': | |
| Definitions include: seemingly accidental but with a secret motive. | |
| Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner. | |
| Definitions include: See on (one's) plate. | |
| Definitions include: useless. | |
| Definitions include: absolutely futile; pointless, worthless, inept or absurd; good-for-nothing or idiotic. | |
| Definitions include: doing better after an unfavorable event. | |
| Definitions include: returned to one's meth or crack addiction. | |
| Definitions include: to insult for fun; "make fun of". | |
| Definitions include: to leave (a relationship) or abandon. | |
| Definitions include: to attempt to attract verbally; "hit on". | |
| Definitions include: to test something before it is released or presented. | |
| Definitions include: See barge in. | |
| Definitions include: used to describe a person that is angry and is scolding at someone. | |
| Definitions include: to be involved with. | |
| Definitions include: to be present in large numbers. | |
Other terms relating to 'time': | |
| Definitions include: time to eat. | |
| Definitions include: in a grand way. | |
| Definitions include: an effect in visual media such as movies and video games in which playback is slowed or paused while the camera moves around a moving object such as a bullet. | |
| Definitions include: time spend in front of the TV sitting on one's butt and relaxing. | |
| Definitions include: a period of time during which optimum performance is critical for the successful outcome of a project, process, task, etc. | |
| Definitions include: to serve a sentence in jail or prison. | |
| Definitions include: to do something quickly. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "Estimated Time of Arrival." | |
| Definitions include: the potential of facilitating one's meeting of other people. | |
| Definitions include: physically near a time zone boundary, the later of the two times. | |
| Definitions include: to be over half an hour late to all gatherings. | |
| Definitions include: a decision that will be made close to the time of acting upon that decision. | |
| Definitions include: to pay attention to a person. | |
| Definitions include: excellent. | |
| Definitions include: Everything's good. | |
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