someone's number is up
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English
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Phrase
[edit]- (informal) It is someone's time to die, or to undergo some other difficult experience.
- 2014 December 16, Fujino Omori, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Vol. 1 (light novel), Yen Press LLC, →ISBN:
- Even in this hopeless situation, I don't feel like my number's up. I have to reach the next level, get closer to her. I don't have time to play with the monsters down here. I'm in the eye of a storm of howls and roars, but I'm different […]
- 2012 July 3, DW Gibson, Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today's Changing Economy, Penguin, →ISBN:
- So I just thought, well, my number's up. I'm going to get some stupid assignment that nobody wants.