as if there were no tomorrow

English

Alternative forms

• as if there is no tomorrow, as if there's no tomorrow; as if there was no tomorrow (proscribed)
• like there is no tomorrow, like there's no tomorrow; like there was no tomorrow (proscribed), like there were no tomorrow

Pronunciation

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Adverb

as if there were no tomorrow

1. (idiomatic) To an excessive degree, oftentimes with little to no regard to future consequences; desperately; recklessly or wantonly; frantically; very quickly or very much.
   • 1999, Carol Brightman, Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure, →ISBN, page 106:

     Starting with the Pranksters, who were the first to take LSD out of the war labs and hospitals, hippies were mixing drugs as if there were no tomorrow.

Synonyms

• like it's going out of style
• like one's life depended on it

Translations

to an excessive degree

• Finnish: kuin huomista ei olisi
• French: comme si sa vie en dépendait (fr)
• German: als ob es kein Morgen gäbe
• Hebrew: כְּאִלּוּ אֵין מָחָר
• Hungarian: mintha nem lenne holnap
• Italian: come se non ci fosse un domani
• Polish: jakby jutro miał się skończyć świat, jakby jutra miało nie być
• Portuguese: como se não houvesse amanhã
• Spanish: como si no hubiera un mañana
• Swedish: som om det inte skulle finnas en morgondag, som om det inte finns en morgondag, som om om det inte funnes en morgondag (grammatically correct, but dated)
• Tagalog: parang wala nang bukas
• Turkish: yarın yokmuşçasına