as if one's life depended on it

English

Adverb

as if one's life depended on it (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of like one's life depended on it
   • 1991, Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 148:

     […] I'm experiencing a major-league anxiety attack, searching my pockets for Valium, Xanax, a leftover Halcion, anything, and all I find are three faded Nuprin in a Gucci pill-box, so I pop all three into my mouth and swallow them down with a Diet Pepsi and I couldn’t tell you where it came from if my life depended on it.