According to the news, he's been donating piecemeal to various charities for quite some time.
Now it seems that they can be in line for the bequest before you've passed away.
Then, in due time, the IRS lets you know how much you owe the government for the gift tax.
That can be a downer for plans you may have made for a spending spree.
Most of us can look forward to some sort of a bequest, but many of us are due for disappointment.
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piecemeal be in line for in due time downer due for fortune living legacy inheritance heir bequest close kin worthy cause spending spree
────────────────────────────── piecemeal, 少しずつ、漸次 = sporadic ────────────────────────────── If you describe a change or process as piecemeal, you disapprove of it because it happens gradually, usually at irregular intervals, and is probably not satisfactory.
ex) Instead of the government's piecemeal approach, what is needed is a radical shake-up of 16-19 education.
なんと、piecemealには悪いイメージがあるようです。
ジーニアスでは、（計画性がなく）少しずつ とあります。
────────────────────────────── be in line for, …を約束されている = due ────────────────────────────── If you are in line for something, it is likely to happen to you or you are likely to obtain it. If something is in line to happen, it is likely to happen.
ex) He must be in line for a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
────────────────────────────── in due time, やがて、そのうちに ────────────────────────────── in due courseに同じ
If you say that something will happen or take place in due course, you mean that you cannot make it happen any quicker and it will happen when the time is right for it.
ex) In due course the baby was born.
────────────────────────────── downer, [俗] 気がめいる事柄、不快な経験 ────────────────────────────── If you describe a situation as a downer, you think that it is very depressing. [INFORMAL]
ex) For divorced people, Christmas can be a downer.
downerは鎮静剤です。
────────────────────────────── due for, …（すること）になっている ────────────────────────────── If someone is due for something, that thing is planned to happen or be given to them now, or very soon, often after they have been waiting for it for a long time.
ex) Although not due for release until 2001, he was let out of his low-security prison to spend a weekend with his wife.
piecemeal, 少しずつ、漸次 = sporadic be in line for, …を約束されている = due in due time, やがて、そのうちに downer, [俗] 気がめいる事柄、不快な経験 due for, …（すること）になっている fortune, 財産 living legacy, 生前贈与 inheritance, 遺産、相続財産 heir, (法定)相続人 hは発音しない bequest, 遺贈、遺産 close kin, 近い親類、近親者 worthy cause, 立派な運動[主義]、大儀 spending spree, 散財、派手な金遣い
では、、
I had a {downer} at the office today. I {am in line for} making a presentation in English I have been studying English hard unplanned and {piecemeal}. I hope {in due time} my English will improve. In order to achieve it, I will spend a {fortune}. To tell the truth, I am the {heir} to a famous family. That means I will receive a {bequest}. {Living legacy} would be better because I can get the {inheritance} earlier. Then I will go on a {spending spree} for {worthy cause}, I mean, signing up for Berlitz with my {close kin}.
"NHKラジオ ビジネス英会話 Giving While Living (1) 3/3-4 2008"
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