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单词 to die in one's shoes
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to die in one's shoes
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
to die in one's shoes
d. to die in one's shoes: to meet with a violent death, esp. to be hanged. Also allusively.
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the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die violently
perishc1275
to shed blood?1473
to die in one's shoes1694
to come to a sticky end1904
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. xlv. 174 Whoever refus'd to do this, should presently swing for't, and die in his Shoes.
1712 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 341 He dy'd in his Shoes; his Domesticks say of an Apoplexie.
1840 R. H. Barham Execution in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 301 All come to see a man ‘die in his shoes!’
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