* to have a foot in the grave
Idiom used here and there by Everyone
To kick the bucket; used to say that someone has little time left to live.
"Il mio vicino ha 85 anni, ha praticamente un piede nella fossa."
"My neighbor is 85, he basically has a foot in the grave."
Added December 2020 by cinziasimona
3 out of 3 Italian speakers have heard this