borrowed time

noun

an uncertain, usually limited period of time extending beyond or postponing the occurrence of something inevitable.

First recorded in 1895–1900

Nathan Lane got the call the week he opened on Broadway in On Borrowed Time and in the film Frankie and Johnny.

Putting that aside, I like the notion that Emma is living on borrowed time, that there is a ticking clock affixed to her neck.

For the past 60 years, the West has been operating on borrowed time in its dealings with the Arab world.

Then nine years later we did On Borrowed Time by Paul Osbourne back at Circle in the Square.

Nevertheless it's certain that those two, whoever they may be, are here on borrowed time.

You are all living on borrowed time; and but for our pleadings, it would be still less.

He was well into the thirties and his life's goal was still tantalizingly far before him, and he living on borrowed time.

She says she is living on borrowed time because she has always taken care of herself and worked and been honest.

I am now living on borrowed time, being in my seventy-ninth year.

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