have a good innings
UK informalIf you say that someone has had a good innings, you mean that they have had a long and successful life:
He was 86 when he died so I suppose he'd had a good innings.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Life and living
- alive
- animate
- borrow
- cheat
- cheat death idiom
- co-exist
- hold
- immortal
- last
- last out
- lead 1
- life cycle
- life expectancy
- life form
- living
- longevity
- outlive
- subsist
- subsistence
- survivable
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