days are numbered

Meaning

1. sb's / sth's days are numbered

   a person or thing will not continue to live, exist or be successful for much longer

   His days as leader of the party are numbered.

In the movies · 5

• Our days are numbered.Watchmen2009
• The Magisterium's days are numbered.The Golden Compass2007
• He'd call me at the hospital and say: "Son of a bitch, your days are numbered!"Birdman or2014
• I knew that my days were numbered.Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room2005
• - His inn-keeping days are numbered. - I wouldn't say that.White Christmas1954

Learn it in full scenes

• Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room2005
  • Enron's Dabhol Plant in Ruins
  • Fastow Admits Both Sides
  • Skilling Loses It on the Call

From the same entry

• all in a day's work
• any day
• carry the day
• day after day
• day by day
• day in, day out
• a day of reckoning
• from day one
• from day to day
• from one day to the next
• have had your day
• have seen better days