Meanings
alternative as if there is no tomorrow · alternative as if there's no tomorrow · alternative as if there was no tomorrow · alternative like there is no tomorrow · alternative like there's no tomorrow · alternative like there was no tomorrow · alternative like there were no tomorrow
- idiomaticTo an excessive degree, oftentimes with little to no regard to future consequences; desperately; recklessly or wantonly; frantically; very quickly or very much.
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.
1999, Carol Brightman, Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure, →ISBN, page 106Synonyms: like it's going out of style, like one's life depended on it
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbTo an excessive degree, oftentimes with little to no regard to future consequences; desperately; recklessly or wantonly; frantically; very quickly or very much.
Translations
Finnish kuin huomista ei olisi
- kuin huomista ei olisito an excessive degree
French comme si sa vie en dépendait
- comme si sa vie en dépendaitto an excessive degree
German als ob es kein Morgen gäbe
- als ob es kein Morgen gäbeto an excessive degree
Hebrew כְּאִלּוּ אֵין מָחָר
- כְּאִלּוּ אֵין מָחָרto an excessive degree
Hungarian mintha nem lenne holnap
- mintha nem lenne holnapto an excessive degree
Italian come se non ci fosse un domani
- come se non ci fosse un domanito an excessive degree
Polish jakby jutro miał się skończyć świat, jakby jutra miało nie być
- jakby jutro miał się skończyć światto an excessive degree
- jakby jutra miało nie byćto an excessive degree
Portuguese como se não houvesse amanhã
- como se não houvesse amanhãto an excessive degree
Spanish como si no hubiera un mañana
- como si no hubiera un mañanato an excessive degree
Swedish som om det inte skulle finnas en morgondag, som om det inte finns en morgondag
- som om det inte skulle finnas en morgondagto an excessive degree
- som om det inte finns en morgondagto an excessive degree
- som om om det inte funnes en morgondagto an excessive degree
Tagalog parang wala nang bukas
- parang wala nang bukasto an excessive degree
Turkish yarın yokmuşçasına
- yarın yokmuşçasınato an excessive degree
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as if there were no tomorrow. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/as%20if%20there%20were%20no%20tomorrow
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