OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 55162

borrowed time

Meanings (ES + gloss)
tiempo emprestado
A period of time whose precise duration is not known but which can be expected to be quite limited, and at the end of which one's situation, benefits, or opportunities will be entirely terminated.
[A]t eighty a body is living on borrowed time.
to live on borrowed time
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