as if there were no tomorrow

English

Alternative forms

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

Pronunciation

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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, 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, jakby jutra miało nie być
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• Portuguese: como se não houvesse amanhã
• 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