英语词汇one foot on a banana peel and the other in the grave的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	one foot on a banana peel and the other in the grave
词源	one foot on a banana peel and the other in the grave. Very old or very ill, on the brink of death, slipping away fast; or not in good health recently, though far from dying. The words are a 20th-century humorous extension of one foot in the grave. See one foot in charon’s ferryboat.
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