for one's life

English

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for one's life

  1. (idiomatic) extremely desperately
    • 2011 December 7, David Ornstein, “FC Basel 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport‎:
      Basel continued to defend for their lives while occasionally threatening on the break.
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