as if there were no tomorrow

English

Alternative forms

• as if there was no tomorrow
• like there is no tomorrow

Phrase

as if there were no tomorrow

1. (idiomatic) To an excessive degree; desperately; frantically; very quickly or very much.
   • 1999, Carol Brightman, Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure, ISBN 9780671011178, p. 106 (Google preview):

     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 one's life depended on it

Translations

to an excessive degree

• French: comme si sa vie en dépendait (fr)

• Hebrew: כְּאִלּוּ אֵין מָחָר
• Polish: jakby jutro miał się skończyć świat