| 单词 | to die in one's shoes | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto 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.1to die in one's shoes  d.   to die in one's shoes: to meet with a violent death, esp. to be hanged. Also allusively. ΘΚΠ 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!’ < as lemmas  | 
	
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