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at death's door
Idioms and Phrases
On the point of dying, very ill, as in Whenever she had a bad cold she acted as though she were at death's door . The association of death with an entry way was first made in English in the late 1300s, and the phrase itself dates from the mid-1500s. Today it is often used as an exaggeration of ill health.Example Sentences
鈥淚 was lucky. I lived,鈥 said Amanda Zurawski, whose doctors in Texas waited until she was at death鈥檚 door and miscarrying at 18 weeks before they would perform an abortion.
He added that an Israeli invasion of the city would "leave an already fragile humanitarian operation at death's door".
The movies have ostensibly been at death鈥檚 door at least since the shift to sync sound, which isn鈥檛 to undersell the industry鈥檚 business woes.
鈥淧regnant people should not have to fear that they will be denied life-saving treatment from Oklahoma hospitals, nor should they be forced to wait until they are at death鈥檚 door before health care providers intervene,鈥 the complaint said.
The musical 鈥淩ock & Roll Man鈥 starts with an attention-grabbing gambit: It is 1965, and J. Edgar Hoover is prosecuting the D.J. and promoter Alan Freed, then at death鈥檚 door.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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