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English
Pronunciation
Prepositional phrase
at death's door
- (idiomatic) About to die; in a life-threatening state of health.
- Synonyms: knocking on heaven's door, on one's deathbed
Translations
about to die
- Ainu: マイマイケ (maymayke)
- Azerbaijani: bir ayağı burda, bir ayağı gorda
- Catalan: a les portes de la mort
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 瀕臨死亡/濒临死亡 (bīnlín sǐwáng)
- Finnish: kuolemaisillaan, kuoleman kielissä
- French: aux portes de la mort, à l’agonie (fr), à l’article de la mort (fr)
- Galician: ás portas da morte
- German: an der Schwelle des Todes
- Icelandic: dauðvona (is) m, liggja fyrir dauðanum, vera langt leiddur, vera í andarslitrunum, berja nestið
- Irish: ar deireadh
- Italian: al capolinea, al lumicino
- Latin: moribundus (la), capulāris
- Maori: whakahemohemo
- Norman: au nom d'mort, sus l'pus, au pas d'la mort
- Polish: jedną nogą w grobie, na łożu śmierci, u progu śmierci
- Portuguese: às portas da morte (pt), nas portas da morte, no bico do corvo (pt)
- Romanian: cu un picior în groapă, în pragul morții, pe moarte
- Russian: при́ сме́рти (ru) (prí smérti) (preposition stressed), на сме́ртном одре́ (ru) (na smértnom odré), одно́й ного́й в моги́ле (odnój nogój v mogíle), на краю́ гро́ба (na krajú gróba)
- Spanish: a las últimas
- Turkish: ölümün eşiğinde
- Welsh: wrth borth marwolaeth
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