one foot in the grave

短语

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Indicates being near death, or almost dead.

    [https://www.phoenixbookcompany.com/blog/%3Fp%3D7670 a close brush with death, a one-foot-in-the-grave kind of close [brush]]"

    That was one-foot-in-the-grave old in 1971.