be long for this world

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not be long for this world

to be going to die soon Judging by the look of him, he's not long for this world either.

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He can't be long for this world, my dear; I wouldn't hasten his end, but what with asthma and that inward complaint, let us hope there is something better for him in another. Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context More results

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