idiom > (literally) God doesn't give him a life long enough (to accomplish his task, etc.)-- usually said of a person who dies on an important job
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Days without leave of
  Explanation: Leave: to give. God does not give life. That life is not long.
  Source: Qingping Buqing "Xia outer skirt crumbs," Mr. Juan Liu to this test, for the life of the weary effort, into a line of the world, enough to read a history of a help, but unfortunately the day did not leave, the product of years of forty-six years, fulfill only one of the history of the three. "
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  成语 天不假年
  发音 tiān bù jiǎ nián
  解释 假:给予。天公不给以寿命。指寿命不长。
  出处 清·平步青《霞外裙屑》卷六:“予以先生此考,为一生心力所瘁,成以行世,足为读史者一助,惜天不假年,积四十六年之岁月,仅成全史三之一。”
  用法 作宾语;指寿命不长
  示例 常有人感叹李贺天不假年,否则艺术上再磨练的成熟些不知能到达什么境地。
  反义词 天假其年
English Expression
  1. v.:  (literally) God doesn't give him a life long enough (to accomplish his task, etc.)-- usually said of a person who dies on an important job