for dear life
отчаянно, изо всех сил (как если бы от этого зависела жизнь)
He jumped on the running board of the car and hang on for dear life.
Другие идиомы:
- ferret (information or something) out of (someone)
- fight like cats and dogs
- flog/beat a dead horse
- fraidy-cat
- feather one's nest
- fly the coop
- for the birds
- foul one's own nest
- fall/drop into one's lap
- feel (something) in one's bones
- flex one's muscles
- face value (of something)
- fair play
- figure out (something)
- fill the bill