"like there were no tomorrow" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1998, David M Thomas, chapter 6, in Anger’s Violin, Dingle, County Kerry: Mount Eagle Publications Ltd., →ISBN, page 114:",
          "text": "Already giving out under the heat or the sheer oppression of numbers, they guzzle mineral water like there were no tomorrow.",
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          "ref": "2015, Jose Thekkumthala, “The Arrest”, in Amballore House, →ISBN, pages 270–271:",
          "text": "All they could think was to run, and run they did like there were no tomorrow.",
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          "ref": "2015, Shanny [pseudonym; Lashandria Smith], “The Day of the shower”, in Friends & Lovers, part 2, Leo Sullivan Presents, →ISBN, page 193:",
          "text": "I had been anticipating this food for so long that all mind was set on was eating like there were no tomorrow.",
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