last gasp

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   the point of death or exhaustion or completion

   “the last gasp of the cold war”

   Broaderend

Questions about last gasp

What does last gasp mean?

last gasp means "the point of death or exhaustion or completion".

Is last gasp a common word?

last gasp is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.