breathe one's last breath

English

Verb

breathe one's last breath (third-person singular simple present breathes one's last breath, present participle breathing one's last breath, simple past and past participle breathed one's last breath)

1. Synonym of breathe one's last
   • 1962 October, Tristram Coffin, "Peace in politics", in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 18, nr. 8, page 43.

     When the isolationists were breathing their last frantic breaths in 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt boldly campaigned on an internationally based policy.