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have one foot in the grave
idiom humorous
to be very old and near death一只脚已踏进坟墓，行将就木
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Describing people who are old
advanced
advancing
aged
ageing
ageless
day
elderly
foot
gaga
geriatric
gerontic
golden oldie
grand old ageidiom
gray
grey
overage
pensionable
sprightliness
sprightly
spry
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Death and dying
If I have one foot in the grave, I shall have the other in the Shaftesbury Theatre to-night.
It is impossible to say how old the man was, but his hair was white as snow, and he had one foot in the grave.
We now turn to contemplate the beginnings of Mr. Clay's aspirations to the presidency, which from this time never left him until he had one foot in the grave.
Well, it isn't like me either to go moping around as if I had one foot in the grave and the other was slipping, retorted Grace, with a spirit that showed the experiment had worked.
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