What is the origin of "like there's no tomorrow"? [closed]
Solution 1:
The OED registers this:
as if there were no tomorrow, like there's no tomorrow, and variants: with no regard for the future, recklessly; immoderately, to excess.
and cites the following as early usage:
1847 People's Jrnl. All flying onward through the measure [sc. the Polka] as if there were no ‘to-morrow’.
Solution 2:
1952, Examiner, Taz, Auatralia.
Joey Maxim's training camp has been padlocked on the orders of his manager, Jack Kearns. "Every time I go away for a few days everybody eats here like there's no tomorrow, e specially Joey," said Kearns. "Chef," he growled, "throw out every box of spaghetti in the joint. If you don't, you're fired." "O.K., O.K.," said the chef.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/52881806?searchTerm=%22no+tomorrow%22
There appears to be a worldwide transition from "as if there were no tomorrow" to "like there was no tomorrow" beginning around this time.