Theseus
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She's had a long/good innings:- she/he has enjoyed a long period of positive action or life/to have had a rich or full life (from cricket where an innings is the time that a team spends batting and a good innings is when they score a lot of runs).
My mother - Θεός σχωρέστην - died early this morning at the age of 98. This is what my youngest son said by way of consolation:-
--She had a good innings - she lived to be ninety-eight.
My mother - Θεός σχωρέστην - died early this morning at the age of 98. This is what my youngest son said by way of consolation:-
--She had a good innings - she lived to be ninety-eight.