"for one's life" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Audio: en-au-for one's life.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} for one's life, {{en-PP}} for one's life
  1. (idiomatic) extremely desperately Tags: idiomatic Translations (extremely desperately): kuin henkensä edestä (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-for_one's_life-en-prep_phrase-hV2asVH5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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