dying gasp
Last exhale ever
A dying gasp is a final, desperate effort made when defeat or failure is imminent—the last attempt before giving up or giving out: The company's price cuts were a dying gasp before bankruptcy.
The phrase evokes the literal final breath of someone expiring, applied figuratively to organizations, movements, or efforts in their terminal moments.
- expireCease to be valid
- final breathDying person's last exhale
- swan songFinal work or performance
- last hurrahFinal fling before ending
- death-struggleFinal desperate conflict
on death's door · fading fast · one foot in the grave · death rattle · die · depart · fatality · end of life · bitter end · hypoxia · mortality · last words · endgame · respiratory failure · extinction · suffocation · final act · cardiac arrest
dying gaspfirst cry
Newborn's initial vocalization
first breath · emergence · genesis · inception · beginning
dying gaspbreath of life
Animating essence within beings
grand opening · flourishing · second wind · revival · resuscitation
dying gaspfresh start
Opportunity to restart unburdened
new beginning · grand opening · launch · debut · genesis