like one's life depended on it

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like one's life depended on it

(idiomatic, simile) Desperately.
- 2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC‎:
  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.

Translations

desperately

Finnish: henkensä edestä
French: comme si sa vie en dépendait (fr)
Hungarian: mintha az élete múlna rajta
Polish: jakby od tego zależało życie
Spanish: como si su vida dependiera de ello
Turkish: hayatı buna bağlıymış gibi

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