0 Something that is on its last legs is in such bad condition that it will soon be unable to work as it should: --
Most of the industry agrees that induced pricing and the allocation system is on its last legs.
His business was on its last legs, and once he retired he would be left with no house, no business, no capital—nothing.
The reaction was so strong because everyone knew that this plant was not on its last legs.
The hop industry is more or less on its last legs, and it is important that something should be done without delay to help it.
Despite that, our critics say that the privatisation programme is on its last legs.
Everyone is well aware that the common agricultural policy is on its last legs.
Autocracy of that kind is on its last legs everywhere.
It does not do to go about talking as if the industry were on its last legs.
