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be at death's door

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be at death's door (informal)

to be nearly dead. Don't exaggerate, it was only flu - you were hardly at death's door.

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He believed your eminence to be at death's door, because your eminence consulted him. Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context More results

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