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Description of a person who is elderly or very ill and presumably near death. Not particularly respectful, but usually used comically.
Also used with the addition of "one foot in the grave and the other one on a banana peel."
Also used with the addition of "one foot in the grave and the other one on a banana peel."
Petie's cat was 18 years old, and while he didn't want to admit it, Petie realized that Tabby had one foot in the grave and the other one on a banana peel.
by TBea April 23, 2008
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To have "one foot in the grave" is to be close to death; depicting an elderly or sick person or animal close to death, or one with a life so pathetic that their life barely counts as living.
Carl lives alone, has no friends, and spends his days drinking till' he sleeps. You could say he's got one foot in the grave. // "Grandpa is 102 and has leukemia, I'm sorry to say it, but he's already got one foot in the grave."
by junkiii April 24, 2020