风烛残年

fēngzhú-cánnián

[in one's declining years; at the flickering stage of one's life; have one foot in the grave; old and ailing is like a candle guttering in the wind] 风中之烛易灭。 喻指老人的残年, 不久于世

只这风烛残年, 没的倒是眼泪倒回去, 望肚子里流。 --《儿女英雄传》