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at death's door

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at death's door
very near the end of one's life. (Often an exaggeration.) I was so ill that I was at death's door for three days. The family dog was at death's door for three days, and then it finally died.
See also: door

at death's door
dying or very ill He literally was at death's door when a liver became available for transplant.
See also: door


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Accompanied by the lightest of porters, fit colourless servitor at Death's door when Mrs.
There is a lake down there below us, and anyone who bathes in it, though he were at death's door, becomes sound and well on the spot, and those who wash their eyes with the dew on this hill become as sharp-sighted as the eagle, even if they have been blind from their youth.
Bulstrode did not answer immediately, and she continued, "It's not a time to spare when people are at death's door, nor would you wish it, sir, I'm sure.
 
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