| 单词 | die in one's bed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto die in one's bed P2. to die in one's bed: to die at home or of ‘natural causes,’ as opposed to violent death in war, persecution, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die naturally to die naturally1554 to die a dry death1594 to die in one's beda1739 a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) I. i. vi. 26 The knights eat, and sleep, and die in their beds. to die in one's bed to die game, to maintain a bold and defiant bearing to the last, i.e. like a gamecock; whence by contrast to die dung-hill; to die in one's bed, i.e. of illness or other natural cause, the opposite of which is to die in one's shoes; to die in one's boots or shoes or with one's boots on: to die a violent death, spec. to be hanged; so to die with one's boots off: to have a peaceful or unspectacular death or end; to die in harness, i.e. in full work; and in other similar phrases. to die in the last ditch: see last ditch n. at last adv., adj., and n.4 Compounds.extracted from diev.1< as lemmas |
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