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like one's life depended on it en · ADP

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Meanings

  1. (idiomatic, qualifier:simile) Desperately.
    • With Carlos Tevez chasing down every lost cause like his life depended on it, City always had an out ball but Arsenal had such a monopoly on possession that they barely had to give thought even to the Argentine. 2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:

Relateds

to save one's life · for the life of one · as if there were no tomorrow

Translations (6)

fi henkensä edestä (desperately) · fr comme si sa vie en dépendait (desperately) · tr hayatı buna bağlıymış gibi (desperately) · es como si su vida dependiera de ello (desperately) · pl jakby od tego zależało życie (desperately) · hu mintha az élete múlna rajta (desperately)