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be on your beam ends
idiomUKold-fashionedinformal
to be close to complete failure or destruction:
When we returned to camp we found them on their beam ends, sick and starving.
The church is on its beam ends and can no longer be relied on as a sponsor of the arts.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Failing and doing badly
abjectly
at-risk
backbencher
balls (something) up
be running on emptyidiom
blow (someone/something) up
bomb
egg
flog a dead horseidiom
flop
flub
flunk out
founder
fray around/at the edgesidiom
mess
running on emptyidiom
sclerotic
screw
screw (something) up
sign someone's death warrant
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