| 单词 | to have one foot in the grave |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have one foot in the (also his, etc.) grave (a) to have one foot in the (also his, etc.) grave: to be near death through old age or illness. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)] > be dying to have one foot in the (also his, etc.) grave?1483 to draw on1484 to gasp up the ghost1577 gore1577 to turn one's face to the wall1579 to gasp one's last1603 groan1642 not to be long for this world1665 strugglea1674 to falter forth or out1814 to sprawl one's last1837 ?1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton iv. sig. i.j Sayd a wyse Senatour of Rome that yf he had one foote in his graue, yet wold he euer lerne..that alle scyence is goten and acquysyte by contynuacion and longe vse. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iii. iv. ii. 701 An old Acheronticke dizard, that hath one foote in his graue. 1690 T. Shadwell Amorous Bigotte iii. 23 A Reverend white-headed, white-bearded old Gentleman with one foot in the grave. 1790 J. Wesley Let. Mar. (1931) VIII. 209 I am a dying man, having already one foot in the grave. 1812 H. L. Stanhope Let. 23 Sept. in I. Bruce Nun of Lebanon (1951) ii. xii. 152 Had I one foot in the grave I cd. command an Army. 1885 J. Payn Luck of Darrells I. xiv. 252 He has twenty thousand a year... And one foot in his grave. 1913 A. S. M. Hutchinson Happy Warrior ii. 141 Got one foot in the grave, that's what I've got. 1954 Life Oct. 42/3 His political opponents have..warned the voters not to elect a man ‘with one foot in the grave’. 2001 Vibe Aug. 110/1 ‘Let's move it people,’ a doctor yells. ‘We've got a lady with one foot in the grave.’ < as lemmas |
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