borrowedtime

borrowedtime
bor·rowed time (bŏrʹōd, bôrʹ-) n.
A period of uncertainty during which the inevitable consequences of a current situation are postponed or avoided. Often used with on:

terminally ill patients living on borrowed time; an unstable government that existed for months on borrowed time.

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Universalium. 2010.

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