| 释义 |
die a (or the) deathBritish informal Come to an end; cease or fail to be popular or successful: the craze for cycling shorts is dying a death...- He was wrong, of course, and others who followed in his wake have lived to see their own prophecies of a royal-free Britain dying the death.
- One lawyer said: ‘He was a dreadful after-dinner speaker and he was dying a death when he started telling the joke.’
- Our data shows that, far from dying a death, the package holiday is experiencing something of a renaissance.
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