fade fast

fade fast

1. To rapidly approach death, as due to illness or injury. Our mother was taken ill last night from pneumonia, and now she's fading fast. He's losing a lot of blood and fading fast—we need to get him to a hospital right away.
2. To become increasingly incapable of remaining conscious or awake. After seven hours working the night shift, I was starting to feel incredibly drowsy and was fading fast. I think John has had too much to drink, he's fading fast!
3. To rapidly disappear or dissolve. Due to the rapid globalization of the world, there are many languages unique to small groups of people that are fading fast from existence. Support for the president's controversial tax plan is fading fast.
See also: fade, fast
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • be in a bad way
  • catch (something) from (someone)
  • catch from
  • be doing well
  • be hot and cold
  • be on the mend
  • feel hot and cold
  • hot and cold
  • about
  • convalesce from (something)
References in classic literature
Whose vales I leave -- whose spires fade fast from me
Lomas insists the memory of an anxious seven days will fade fast. "I've five years left on my contract," he points out.