OXFORD 9000
📚 prep_phrase • entry_id 30021

at death's door

Meanings (ES + gloss)
a las últimas
About to die; in a life-threatening state of health.
One of my Polynesian sailors lay at death's door with blackwater fever.
The minstrel woman who left the Castle yesterday has spread the report everywhere, that the Duke of Rothsay is murdered, or at death's door.
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