on your last legs
informalA person who is on their last legs is very tired or near to death:
We'd been out walking all day and I was on my last legs when we reached the hotel.
It looks as though her grandfather's on his last legs.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- deceased
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- strike
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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