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borrowed time

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bor·rowed time (brd, bôr-)
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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Now my companion is gone, and for the past 15 years I have been living on borrowed time, lonely but buoyed by memories of two loving men.
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