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
As Jeff says: “It sends simultaneous messages of ‘pour one out for the recently departed’ and ‘you may already have one foot in the grave.’
From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2018
Six months later, when Lafayette took his final leave, Jefferson was weaker and confined to his house, suffering much "with one foot in the grave and the other one uplifted to follow it."
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert
