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Definition of the last gasp in English:

the last gasp

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(also one's last gasp)

  • The point of exhaustion, death, or completion.

    ‘the last gasp of the Cold War’
    • ‘They're on their last gasp or they've been decimated.’
    • ‘But I don't want the already struggling non-corporate bookstores to give up their last gasp.’
    • ‘I was with him at his last gasp and kissed him on the forehead.’
    • ‘From the moment we leave our mother's body at birth to our last gasp on our deathbed, we need air every minute.’
    • ‘The truth is, her last gasp of enthusiasm is behind her, and she's ready to admit that she'd rather be three years younger and sitting in the dark of a movie theater in a Connecticut suburb than in an orange grove overlooking the city of Rome.’
    • ‘This is the last gasp, and last gasps have a way of imploding in a vaingloriously spectacular way, as though their protagonists knew they were going to go down - they just wanted to go down in style.’
    • ‘This is a dispute so absurd it scarcely seems worth arguing, the last gasp of exclusionary privilege that began its death rattle in 1990.’
    • ‘The 1950s was the last gasp for Victorian ways of life - and I know, I had to survive the Fifties!’
    • ‘Optimism was briefly restored when he scored his dramatic last-gasp goal to take the team into yet another cliffhanger.’
    • ‘He materialised in front of the goal in the fading moments to snatch a last - gasp leveller.’