on death's doorstep
短语
英文释义
短语
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Almost dead.
— By the time she decided to seek help from a Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) center near her village, she was on death's doorstep: dizzy and unable to walk, much less work.
词源
Probably a shortening of the phrasal verb sit on death's doorstep.
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