bite the dust
Verb
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Verb
bite the dust
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) To die.
- 1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book XXII., page 293
- Ulysses killed Demoptolemus, Telemachus Euryades, Eumæus Elatus, while the stockman killed Pisander. These all bit the dust, and as the others drew back into a corner Ulysses and his men rushed forward and regained their spears by drawing them from the bodies of the dead
- 1877, Frances Fuller Victor, Eleven years in the Rocky Mountains and a life on the frontier, Chapter IX, p. 156
- Three more warriors bit the dust...
- 1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book XXII., page 293
- (idiomatic) To quit, or fail.
- My old backpack finally bit the dust the other day.
- See also Thesaurus:die
- French: avaler son extrait de naissance, (colloquial) claquer, (colloquial) crever, (informal) calancher
- German: ins Gras beißen
- Italian: mordere la terra, tirare le cuoia
- Portuguese: ir desta para a melhor
- Russian: сыгра́ть в я́щик
- Spanish: morder la tierra, morder el polvo
- French: mordre la poussière, lâcher
- German: ins Gras beißen
- Italian: mangiare la polvere, fallire, essere sconfitto
- Spanish: morder el polvo
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