Like to interrupt both officer and doctor at the death (4-4)
I believe the answer is:
last-gasp
'the death' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'like to interrupt both officer and doctor' is the wordplay.
'like' becomes 'as'.
'to interrupt' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'both officer' becomes 'last' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'doctor' becomes 'GP' (general practitioner).
'last'+'gp'='lastgp'
'as' put within 'lastgp' is 'LAST-GASP'.
'at' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for last-gasp that I've seen before include "Final exhalation before death" , "Remnant of energy or final exhalation" , "Done in desperation (or at the point of death?)" , "'Final breath (4,4)'" , "Done at the latest possible moment" .)