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not long for this world

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not long for this world
Fig. about to die. Our dog is nearly twelve years old and not long for this world. I'm so tired. I think I'm not long for this world.
See also: long, this, world

not long for this world
about to stop working or existing I'm afraid that my laptop is not long for this world.
See also: long, this, world


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This speculation into Abraham Lincoln''s medical history could begin to negate the question of what an un- assassinated Lincoln would have done, with its suggestion that Lincoln was not long for this world even as John Wilkes Booth crept up behind him.
Arguing it was "in our shared interest to support a peaceful transition in Zimbabwe to a democratic government," Rice said China and Russia should support UN efforts to isolate a regime "that is clearly not long for this world.
The interests of China, Russia and southern African countries "no longer, frankly, coincide" with Mugabe's regime, she said, arguing that his long period of rule was "clearly not long for this world.
 
 
 
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