| 单词 | on one's last legs |
| 释义 | on one's last legsExtremely tired, close to collapsing, as in We've been cleaning house all day and I'm on my last legs. This hyperbolic expression originally meant “close to dying,” and in John Ray's 1678 proverb collection it was transferred to being bankrupt. Soon afterward it was applied to the end of one's resources, physical or otherwise. It is sometimes applied to things, as in That furnace is on its last legs. Words nearby on one's last legson one's head, on one's heels, on one's high horse, on one's home ground, on one's honor, on one's last legs, on one's mind, on one's own, on one's own account, on one's own time, on one's part The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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