at death's door

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Meaning: (idiomatic)About todie; in alife-threateningstateofhealth.Synonyms:knocking on heaven's door,on one's deathbed1828May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, inChronicles of the Canongate. Second Series.[…](The Fair Maid of Perth), volume III, Edinburgh:[…][Ballantyne and Co.] forCadell and Co.; London:Simpkin and Marshall,→OCLC,page235:The minstrel woman who left the Castle yesterday has spread the report everywhere, that the Duke of Rothsay is murdered, orat death's door.1913August,Jack London, chapter XXXII, inJohn Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC,page290:One of my Polynesian sailors layat death's doorwith blackwater fever.2008June 29, Josh Quittner, “Bill Gates: PC Genius, Internet Fool”, inTime:Clearly, a business with $26 billion in cash reserves isn't exactlyat death's door.

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