also death-rattle
If you say that one thing is the ~ of another, you mean that the first thing is a sign that very soon the second thing will come to an end. (JOURNALISM)
His rhetoric sounds like the ~ of a fading leadership.
N-SING
also death-rattle
If you say that one thing is the ~ of another, you mean that the first thing is a sign that very soon the second thing will come to an end. (JOURNALISM)
His rhetoric sounds like the ~ of a fading leadership.
N-SING
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012