"count one's days" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "counts one's days",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "counting one's days",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "counted one's days",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "counted one's days",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "count 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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Jake Logan, Slocum and Pearl of the Rio Grande, →ISBN, page 179:",
          "text": "That damn slob Bledstone had better count his days.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 October 22, @lesthecroc, Twitter:",
          "text": "Ahahahahaha the net closes, count your days Paddington you little cunt",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To prepare for imminent retribution or termination."
      ],
      "id": "en-count_one's_days-en-verb-yTWzsAvF",
      "links": [
        [
          "imminent",
          "imminent"
        ],
        [
          "retribution",
          "retribution"
        ],
        [
          "termination",
          "termination"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To prepare for imminent retribution or termination."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "54 46",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see count, days."
      ],
      "id": "en-count_one's_days-en-verb-AnTPvHbY",
      "links": [
        [
          "count",
          "count#English"
        ],
        [
          "days",
          "days#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "count one's days"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "counts one's days",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "counting one's days",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "counted one's days",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "counted one's days",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "count 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)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Jake Logan, Slocum and Pearl of the Rio Grande, →ISBN, page 179:",
          "text": "That damn slob Bledstone had better count his days.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 October 22, @lesthecroc, Twitter:",
          "text": "Ahahahahaha the net closes, count your days Paddington you little cunt",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To prepare for imminent retribution or termination."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "imminent",
          "imminent"
        ],
        [
          "retribution",
          "retribution"
        ],
        [
          "termination",
          "termination"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To prepare for imminent retribution or termination."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see count, days."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "count",
          "count#English"
        ],
        [
          "days",
          "days#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "count one's days"
}