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your number is up
idiom informal
When your number is up, you are going to die: （某人）气数已尽，死到临头
When the plane started to shake, I just thought my number was up.飞机开始摇晃时，我真的以为我要完蛋了。
When your number is up, you can no longer continue doing a job, activity, etc.:
He says that a chief executive can usually tell his number is up from the staff gossip.
At that moment, each suspect realized his or her number was up.
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