count one's days

verb

To prepare for imminent retribution or termination.

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Meanings

verbcount one's days (third-person singular simple present counts one's days, present participle counting one's days, simple past and past participle counted one's days)

present singular third person counts one's days · participle present counting one's days · participle past counted one's days · past counted one's days

  1. idiomaticTo prepare for imminent retribution or termination.

    That damn slob Bledstone had better count his days.

    2008, Jake Logan, Slocum and Pearl of the Rio Grande, →ISBN, page 179
    1 more example

    Ahahahahaha the net closes, count your days Paddington you little cunt

    2024 October 22, @lesthecroc, Twitter
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see count, days.
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