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单词 bite the dust
释义

bite the dust

informal
1Be killed: the baddies bite the dust with lead in their bellies...
  • And whole nations of bad guys would bite the dust.
  • I'm not going to talk baby talk to Annie and teach her the Disney world of violence with no consequences, where the bad guy always bites the dust and the good guy lives happily ever after.
  • I had started seed last summer and put out some transplants last fall, and they bit the dust with our harsh winter.

Synonyms

die, pass away/on, expire, decease, perish, depart this life, be no more, breathe one's last, draw one's last breath, meet one's end, meet one's death, meet one's Maker, give up the ghost, go to the great beyond, cross the great divide, shuffle off this mortal coil, go the way of the/all flesh, go to one's last resting place
informal kick the bucket, croak, conk out, buy it, turn up one's toes, cash in one's chips, go belly up
British informal snuff it, peg out, pop one's clogs
1.1Fail or come to an end: she hoped the new course would not bite the dust for lack of funding...
  • By the time DOS bit the dust in the fall of 2001, the company whose growth it ignited was valued at $341 billion.
  • Also biting the dust will be the Metropole's ballroom and other rooms, centres of many late night jazz festival gigs and other functions.
  • The games are being run off thick and fast and the results as usual in a competition with such a high class field have been mixed to say the least with an odd big name biting the dust.

Synonyms

fail, be unsuccessful, not succeed, lack success, fall through, fall flat, break down, abort, miscarry, be defeated, suffer defeat, be in vain, be frustrated, collapse, founder, misfire, backfire, not come up to scratch, meet with disaster, come to grief, come to nothing, come to naught, miss the mark, run aground, go astray
informal flop, fizzle out, come a cropper, bomb, blow up in someone's face, go down like a lead balloon
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