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be on last legs

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be on your last legs

 

1. (informal) to be going to die soon It looks as if her grandfather's on his last legs now.

2. (informal) to be very tired, especially after a lot of physical activity or work I'd just done fifteen miles and I was on my last legs.

See also: last, leg, on