bite the dust

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To die.

   “Ulysses killed Demoptolemus, Telemachus Euryades, Eumæus Elatus, while the stockman killed Pisander. These all bit the dust, and as the others drew back into a corner Ulysses and his men rushed forward and regained their spears by drawing them from the bodies of the dead”

2. fiil To quit, or fail.

   “My old backpack finally bit the dust the other day.”