Meaning of on one's last legs | Babel Free
Definitions
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About to die. idiomatic
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About to lose viability or become defunct. broadly, idiomatic
Equivalents
Suomi
vedellä viimeisiään
Polski
na ostatnich nogach
Русский
на после́днем издыха́нии
Svenska
sjunga på sista versen
Examples
“[A] friend who assists me with a view to future profit . . . lies like the fox's scent when on his last legs, increasing every moment.”
“He is on his last legs. His kidneys are 'most gone. Remember, 'tis I must bury him.”
“My computer's on its last legs; it crashes running Minesweeper.”
“[T]he wood was main dark, but had a kind of a low glow in it like a fire on its last legs.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.