he had a long innings

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• had a good innings — Brit informal used to say that someone who has died lived a long life We re sad she s gone, but she had a good innings. • • • Main Entry: ↑innings …   Useful english dictionary

• have had a good innings — British & Australian to have had a long and active life or a long and successful period of time in a job. I ve had a good innings but my old heart is very weak now. He s had a good innings as club president …   New idioms dictionary

• somebody had a good innings — sb had a good ˈinnings idiom (BrE, informal) used about sb who has died to say that they had a long life • How old was she? 84? Well, she had a good innings then. Main entry: ↑innings …   Useful english dictionary

• someone had a good innings — Brit., informal someone had a long and fulfilling life or career (said at or before their death or retirement) …   Useful english dictionary

• have had a good innings Brit. — have had a good innings Brit. informal have had a long and fulfilling life or career. → innings …   English new terms dictionary

• Innings — An inning, or innings, is a fixed length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports ndash; most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. In cricket …   Wikipedia

• innings — noun plural innings 1 (C) the period of time when a cricket team or player bats (bat2 (1)) 2 he/she had a good innings BrE informal used about someone who has died to say that they had a long life: It s sad. Still, she was 89 she had a good… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• innings — in|nings [ˈınıŋz] n plural innings 1.) the period of time in a game of ↑cricket when a team or player ↑bats 2.) he/she had a good innings BrE informal used about someone who has died to say that they had a long life …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• innings — /ˈɪnɪŋz / (say iningz) plural noun (construed as singular) 1. Cricket a. the turn of any one member of the batting team to bat. b. one of the major divisions of a match, consisting of the turns at batting of all the members of one team until they …  

• innings — noun (plural same or informal inningses) [treated as sing.] Cricket each of the divisions of a game during which one side has a turn at batting. ↘a player s turn at batting. Phrases have had a good innings Brit. informal have had a long and… …   English new terms dictionary

• Radley College — Infobox UK school name = Radley College size = 100px latitude = longitude = dms = motto = Sicut serpentes, sicut columbae ( [Be ye as wise] as snakes, [and as gentle] as doves ) motto pl = established = 1847 approx = closed = c approx = type =… …   Wikipedia