have one foot in the grave
humorousto be very old and near death
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Describing people who are old
- aged
- ageing
- ageless
- aging
- as old as Methuselah idiom
- day
- elderly
- foot
- for a man/woman/person of his/her years idiom
- gaga
- geriatric
- grand old age idiom
- grey
- have had its/your day idiom
- overage
- pensionable
- senile
- sprightly
- spry
- superannuated
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