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bite the dust

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bitethedust (third-person singular simple presentbites the dust,present participlebiting the dust,simple pastbit the dust,past participlebitten the dust)

  1. (idiomatic, euphemistic) Todie.
    • 1900,Samuel Butler, transl.The Odyssey, Book XXII., page 293
      Ulysses killed Demoptolemus, Telemachus Euryades, Eumæus Elatus, while the stockman killed Pisander. These allbit 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 warriorsbit the dust...
    • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, inRAIL, number947, page61:
      Tons of engine sheds wouldbite the dust with the end of steam, and many would be demolished with their time in the spotlight over. We're lucky that the one at Didcot survived into preservation.
  2. (idiomatic) Toquit, orfail.
    My old backpack finallybit the dust the other day.
    • 1979, “London Calling”,The Clash (music):
      London calling, now don't look to us / Phony Beatlemania hasbitten the dust

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to die
to quit or fail
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