What is the idiom about counting the days every day?

The idiom of counting the days every day is to live like a year.

Living a day is like a year: It means living a day as long as a year, describing the difficult days that are long and unbearable.

From the first volume of "Yu Shi Ming Yan" by Feng Menglong of the Ming Dynasty: Chen Dalang frowned and complained to his mother-in-law: Godmother, you are so slow-hearted. Spring has passed and summer has come, and now autumn has begun again. You say it's too early today, and you say it's too early tomorrow, but you don't know that my days are like years. If we postpone it for a few more days, his husband will come back, and the matter will be in vain, but it will not kill me alive. I will never ask for your life when I go to the underworld.

List 3 sentences:

1. The beggars sleeping on the streets are hungry and cold, and their days are like years.

2. Living under the iron heel of imperialism is really humiliating and living like a year.

3. When I was sick and hospitalized, my days were like years, like an ant on a hot pot.