have a good innings
UK informalDefinition
› If you say that someone has had a good innings, you mean that they have had a long and successful life: He was 86 when he died so I suppose he'd had a good innings.Life and living
(Definition of have a good innings from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- alive adjective
- animate adjective
- cheat death idiom
- co-exist verb
- come through (sth) phrasal verb
- immortal adjective
- lead verb (LIVE)
- life cycle noun
- life expectancy noun
- life form noun
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- lifespan noun
- living adjective (HAVING LIFE)
- living noun (PEOPLE)
- subsist verb
- subsistence noun
- survivable adjective
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