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Also, its days are numbered . The usefulness or life of someone or something is nearly ended. For example, When they announced the layoffs, she knew her days at the company were numbered , or My car's days are numbered—the transmission is shot . A version of this expression appears in the Bible (Daniel 5:26): “God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it.†It came into common use in the late 1800s.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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