Usually means: Very close to dying soon.
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  1. have one foot in the grave: Merriam-Webster
  2. have one foot in the grave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. have one foot in the grave: Collins English Dictionary
  4. have one foot in the grave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. have one foot in the grave: Wiktionary
  6. have one foot in the grave: Dictionary.com
  7. have one foot in the grave: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. have one foot in the grave: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. have one foot in the grave: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (have one foot in the grave)

verb:  (figuratively) To be close to death, to be dying.

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