Definition
About to die.
About to lose viability or become defunct.
In Context
- "[A] friend who assists me with a view to future profit . . . lies like the fox's scent when on his last legs, increasing every moment."
- "He is on his last legs. His kidneys are 'most gone. Remember, 'tis I must bury him."
- "My computer's on its last legs; it crashes running Minesweeper."
- "[T]he wood was main dark, but had a kind of a low glow in it like a fire on its last legs."