英语词汇“one foot in the grave”的读音、翻译、释义、用法及例句-青年旅行网

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词汇	one foot in the grave
释义	one foot in the grave adjective old, perhaps very old. Used as the title of a popular BBC situation comedy about an ageing (but not elderly) couple, written by David Renwick and broadcast from 1990–2000 UK, 1632 one foot in the grave On the verge of death. When I had the flu last week, I felt like I had one foot in the grave. The way the nurses are talking, it sounds like Great-Uncle Edmund is already one foot in the grave—you had better come to the hospital quick. one foot in the grave If someone has one foot in the grave, they are very ill or very old and are likely to die soon. Just because I'm 79, you think I've got one foot in the grave! Note: You use this expression when you are talking about illness and death in a humorous way. one foot in the grave On the verge of death. This graphic hyperbole was already being used in the sixteenth century, when William Painter wrote (The Pallace of Pleasure, 1566), “Takyng paines to visite him, who hath one of his feet alreadie within the graue, and the other stepping after with conuenient speede.”
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