Idiom
bite the dust
Meaning
To die.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My old phone finally bit the dust yesterday.”
“The car was reliable for years, but it finally bit the dust on the highway last week.”
“One by one, the ancient warriors fell, each biting the dust beneath the merciless sun of that forgotten battlefield.”
Examples
simple
“My old phone finally bit the dust yesterday.”
contextual
“The car was reliable for years, but it finally bit the dust on the highway last week.”
complex
“One by one, the ancient warriors fell, each biting the dust beneath the merciless sun of that forgotten battlefield.”
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