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
Why, if ye went by his face he might have one foot in the grave.
From Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' by Pearce, Charles Edward
