circling the drain

circling (the drain)

tv. & in. to be in the final process of dying; to be in extremis. (Jocular but crude hospital jargon.) Get Mrs. Smith’s son on the phone. She’s circling the drain.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Sanjica	SAHN-yee-tsah	Croatian
Sean	[ʃɔ:n]
Woodall	['wudəl]
Therasia	-	Late Roman
Ivan	ee-VAHN (Russian, Ukrainian), IE-vən (English)	Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Macedonian, Slovene, En
Barukh	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew