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like there were no tomorrow en · ADV
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of as if there were no tomorrow.
Already giving out under the heat or the sheer oppression of numbers, they guzzle mineral water like there were no tomorrow.
1998, David M Thomas, chapter 6, in Anger’s Violin, Dingle, County Kerry: Mount Eagle Publications Ltd., →ISBN, page 114:All they could think was to run, and run they did like there were no tomorrow.
2015, Jose Thekkumthala, “The Arrest”, in Amballore House, →ISBN, pages 270–271:I had been anticipating this food for so long that all mind was set on was eating like there were no tomorrow.
2015, Shanny [pseudonym; Lashandria Smith], “The Day of the shower”, in Friends & Lovers, part 2, Leo Sullivan Presents, →ISBN, page 193: