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as if one's life depends on it

as if one's life depends on it is the alternative form of like one's life depended on it.

Meaning of like one's life depended on it

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic, 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

Questions about as if one's life depends on it

What is as if one's life depends on it the alternative form of?
As if one's life depends on it is the alternative form of like one's life depended on it.

Words near as if one's life depends on it in the dictionary

  1. as if by magic
  2. as if I care
  3. as if I cared
  4. as if nothing had happened
  5. as if one's life depended on it
  6. as if one's life depends on it
  7. as if someone owns the place
  8. as if there is no tomorrow
  9. as if there was no tomorrow
  10. as if there were no tomorrow
  11. as if there's no tomorrow

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