one one's last legs
adjective
Roget 360:
dead,
lifeless;
deceased,
demised,
departed,
defunct,
extinct;
late,
gone,
no more;
exanimate†,
inanimate;
out of the world,
taken off,
released;
departed this life
etc.
v.;
dead and gone;
dead as a doornail,
dead as a doorpost†,
dead as a mutton,
dead as a herring,
dead as nits;
launched into eternity,
gone to one's eternal reward,
gone to meet one's maker,
pushing up daisies,
gathered to one's fathers,
numbered with the dead.
dying
etc.
v.;
moribund,
morient†;
hippocratic;
in articulo,
in extremis;
in the jaws of death,
in the agony of death;
going off;
aux abois [Fr.];
one one's last legs,
on one's death bed;
at the point of death,
at death's door,
at the last gasp;
near one's end,
given over,
booked;
with one foot in the grave,
tottering on the brink of the grave.
stillborn;
mortuary;
deadly
etc.
(killing)
361.
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