Caroline Tran
2020-12-11 03:12
Have one foot in the grave humorous phrase informal
When I was in the hospital last month, I felt like I had one foot in the grave.
I was so scared to hear they talked about Stacy like she already had one foot in the grave.
The inexplicable or concealed place or state indicates the afterlife.
To pour concrete over a dead body
1. Used to refer to a point where a process or an activity ends
2. Used to refer to a point where someone no longer survives; death
The verb "have" should be conjugated according to its tense.
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The idiom derived from the 17th century. Its first example was recorded in Philip Massinger's and Nathan Field's play The Fatall Dowry: A Tragedy, 1632. It had been widely used following the success of the BBC sitcom One Foot In The Grave (1990s).
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