as if there were no tomorrow

English

(idiomatic) To an excessive degree, oftentimes with little to no regard to future consequences; desperately; recklessly or wantonly; frantically; very quickly or very much.
- 1999, Carol Brightman, Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure, →ISBN, page 106:
  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.

to an excessive degree

Finnish: kuin huomista ei olisi
French: comme si sa vie en dépendait (fr)
German: als ob es kein Morgen gäbe
Hebrew: כְּאִלּוּ אֵין מָחָר
Italian: come se non ci fosse un domani
Polish: jakby jutro miał się skończyć świat, jakby jutra miało nie być
Portuguese: como se não houvesse amanhã
Spanish: como si no hubiera un mañana
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
Turkish: yarın yokmuşçasına

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