for dear life

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfor dear lifefor dear lifewrittenVERY if you run, fight, hold on etc for dear life, you do it as fast or as well as you can because you are afraid She grasped the side of the boat and hung on for dear life. → dearExamples from the Corpusfor dear life• Sherman held onto the bar for dear life.• The girl shut her eyes and gripped back for dear life.• The playing throughout the evening was truly superb, every instrumentalist bowing and blowing and thumping as though for dear life.• They often looked very strained to Anna, as if they were holding on to their loyalty for dear life.• With difficulty, he made his way towards her, Charlotte clinging to him for dear life.• It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan.• This wasn't easy either, because she was spooked and was clinging for dear life to the poor kid's hair.

单词	for dear life
释义	for dear life From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfor dear lifefor dear lifewrittenVERY if you run, fight, hold on etc for dear life, you do it as fast or as well as you can because you are afraid She grasped the side of the boat and hung on for dear life. → dearExamples from the Corpusfor dear life• Sherman held onto the bar for dear life.• The girl shut her eyes and gripped back for dear life.• The playing throughout the evening was truly superb, every instrumentalist bowing and blowing and thumping as though for dear life.• They often looked very strained to Anna, as if they were holding on to their loyalty for dear life.• With difficulty, he made his way towards her, Charlotte clinging to him for dear life.• It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan.• This wasn't easy either, because she was spooked and was clinging for dear life to the poor kid's hair.
随便看	anxious etc lest anxious for somebody to do something anxious for to do anxious that anxious to do anxious to do something anxius any any ... you care to name/mention any amount of any amount of something any chance of any chance of ...? any day etc now any day/minute etc now any eventuality any fool can do any fool can do something any given any luck luck any luck?/no luck? any minute any minute etc now any moment any no luck