one foot in the grave
Example Sentences
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“I know I have one foot in the grave, but I’m totally in celebration mode,” Evangelista told the Wall Street Journal.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2023
You know, your agents tell you, ‘Well, you’re of a certain age…’ I’m not dead and I don’t have one foot in the grave, come on!
From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2023
Do I inform my longtime friends, particularly those whom I’ve loved deeply but who live far away, that I have one foot in the grave?
From Slate • Jul. 25, 2021
"Who even reads it? The art of shorthand doesn't just have one foot in the grave, it has the other planted firmly on a banana peel."
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2016
He is broken and ill; he has more than one foot in the grave.
From The Heart of a Woman by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
