breathe one's last breath

Verb

 * 1) * 1962 October, Tristram Coffin, "Peace in politics", in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 18, nr. 8, page 43.
 * When the isolationists were breathing their last frantic breaths in 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt boldly campaigned on an internationally based policy.
 * When the isolationists were breathing their last frantic breaths in 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt boldly campaigned on an internationally based policy.