tener los días contados

(v.) = day + be + numbered, be doomed, doomed, be dead meat, the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming

Ex. The day of the stand-alone library is numbered, and the day of the stand-alone end-user is yet to come.

Ex. We are on the way to a transformed library service, total in design (and anything less than totality is doomed as a has-been today).

Ex. Unlike in 1990 when the genre seemed doomed, it has become an increasingly robust and acceptable segment of American publishing.

Ex. I think we have some chance to get Friday in, but Saturday is dead meat without any doubt whatsoever and Sunday is pretty iffy.

Ex. Surely the writing is on the wall for Gordon Brown and ministers will act in October to put him out of his and our collective miseries.

Ex. The inference is that they cannot be held accountable for something so unusual, so extraordinary, and so unforecastable that that no one saw it coming.

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(v.) = day + be + numbered, be doomed, doomed, be dead meat, the (hand)writing + be + on the wall, see it + coming

Ex: The day of the stand-alone library is numbered, and the day of the stand-alone end-user is yet to come.

Ex: We are on the way to a transformed library service, total in design (and anything less than totality is doomed as a has-been today).

Ex: Unlike in 1990 when the genre seemed doomed, it has become an increasingly robust and acceptable segment of American publishing.

Ex: I think we have some chance to get Friday in, but Saturday is dead meat without any doubt whatsoever and Sunday is pretty iffy.

Ex: Surely the writing is on the wall for Gordon Brown and ministers will act in October to put him out of his and our collective miseries.

Ex: The inference is that they cannot be held accountable for something so unusual, so extraordinary, and so unforecastable that that no one saw it coming.