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Meaning of on one's last legs | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. About to die.
    idiomatic
  2. About to lose viability or become defunct.
    broadly, idiomatic

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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.

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