单词 |
someone's number is up |
释义 |
someone's number is up informal The time has come when someone is doomed to die or suffer some other disaster or setback: though he had survived a thousand crises, he knew that this time his number was up...- Although it must be tempting to tell someone that you love that you love them when you know your number is up, if you also know the true perpetrator of a crime that someone else is suspected of, surely you are duty bound to blurt that out first.
- It doesn't seem to displace much air hence they have little warning, and once they come in contact with the ‘strings’, their number is up!
- He has even arranged for his body to be returned to Tibet for a traditional sky burial when his number is up.
With reference to a lottery number or a number by which one may be identified See parent entry: number |
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- Davis, Jefferson
- Davis, Miles
- Davis Mountains
- Davis, Sammy
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- Davis, Steve
- Davis Strait
- davit
- Davos
- Davy Jones's locker
- Davy lamp
- Davy, Sir Humphry
- daw
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- dawdler
- Dawes, Charles Gates
- Dawes, William
- dawg
- Dawkins, Richard
- dawn
- dawn chorus
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