as if there were no tomorrow

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as if there were no tomorrow

(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

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

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