last gasps
Dying moments' exhales
The last gasps are the final breaths before death, or figuratively, the final moments of something failing or ending: The economy was in its last gasps.
The phrase emphasizes finality and exhaustion—whatever is gasping has nearly spent itself.
A last-gasp effort is a desperate final attempt: a last-gasp goal in the final seconds.
- swan songFinal work or performance
- final breathDying person's last exhale
- endgameConcluding phase of competition
- demisesEnds of lives
- eleventh hourLatest possible time
finale · death throes · expiration · fading fast · conclusions · curtain call · death · culminations · bitter end · obsolescence · collapse · hopelessness · cessation · desperation · extinction · end of days · downfall · decline
last gaspsfirst signs
beginnings · birth pangs · dawn · genesis · green shoots
last gaspsfull bloom
Maximum flowering state
prime · heyday · flourishing · full strength · zenith
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