| 单词 | on its or your last legs |
| 释义 | (idiom) Definition worn out or exhausted By the mid-1980s the copper industry in the US was on its last legs. Synonyms worn out I was exhausted – worn out by the strain I'd been under. dying He is a dying man. failing exhausted She was too exhausted even to think clearly. giving up the ghost at death's door He was at death's door when the disease was finally diagnosed. about to collapse about to fail about to break down Additional synonymsin the sense of at death's door He was at death's door when the disease was finally diagnosed. Synonyms dying, going, sinking, passing, failing, fading, expiring, perishing, ebbing, moribund, in extremis, at death's door, not long for this world in the sense of dying Definition (of a person or animal) very ill and likely to die soon He is a dying man. Synonyms near death, going, failing, fading, doomed, expiring, ebbing, near the end, moribund, fading fast, in extremis, at death's door, not long for this world, on your deathbed, terminally ill, breathing your last in the sense of exhausted She was too exhausted even to think clearly. Synonyms worn out, tired, tired out, drained, spent, beat (slang), bushed (informal), dead (informal), wasted, done in (informal), weak, all in (slang), fatigued, wiped out (informal), sapped, debilitated, jaded, knackered (slang), prostrated, clapped out (British, Australian, New Zealand, informal), effete, enfeebled, enervated, ready to drop, dog-tired (informal), zonked (slang), dead tired, dead beat (informal), shagged out (British, slang), fagged out (informal), worn to a frazzle (informal), on your last legs (informal), creamcrackered (British, slang), out on your feet (informal) Nearby words of |
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