have one foot in the grave

"She has me thinking as if I had one foot in the grave already!"

Two of them looked as if they had one foot in the grave for real.

I thought that when people reached their 30's they had one foot in the grave.

Why bother, after all, with an old fellow who already had one foot in the grave?

Too bad, but Tad had one foot in the grave anyhow.

"As far as the doctors were concerned, I had one foot in the grave."

Brown: "I like my paintings to have one foot in the grave, as it were, and to be not quite of this world.

But I'm not going to keep doing this until I have one foot in the grave."

For pity's sake, I do not have one foot in the grave yet."

Like I have one foot in the grave," she drawled.

Yet many people in the commercial aerospace industry think that the 717 already has one foot in the grave.

They go seeking health when they have one foot in the grave."

By the way she was acting, you'd think I had one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel."

That whoever had one foot in the grave was sure to hold back the other as strongly as he could.

"In fact he has one foot in the grave," said Poirot.

We had to do new things because we had one foot in the grave."

Lot of them had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, when they first came in."

Osheroff used to say, "I have one foot in the grave but the other keeps dancing."

Aunt Lucinda might have one foot in the grave, but until they're both there, this place isn't yours."

Kind of had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel ever since I was about Ellie's age."

As a local proverb here in Chad puts it: A woman who is pregnant has one foot in the grave.

"He weighs eighty pounds and he has one foot in the grave and he wants to fast."

I may have one foot in the grave, but the other one is still welcome in several camps in Washington."

Yellowed newspaper clippings from the 1930's bear witness to the speculation then that the market had one foot in the grave, but it continues.

A sweet girl, the night nurse, but so earnest, I felt as though I had one foot in the grave all night."