bite the dust
to die, to come to an end
TRANSLATION
sterben (ins Gras beissen), versagen
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Another one BITES THE DUST - WorldCom fired its top financial executive Tuesday after discovering that the company had improperly accounted for almost $4 billion on its corporate balance sheets during the past five quarters."
(John Borland - News.com - 25th June 2002)
(John Borland - News.com - 25th June 2002)
Did you
know?
Did you know?
'To bite the dust' means to die, to fall to defeat, or to fail to succeed.
This idiom is over 2,000 years old! In 'The Iliad' Homer describes the Trojan War and how the dying soldiers had fallen with their faces in the dirt. They looked as if they were biting the dust.
This saying became popular in the 1800s and was often heard in early Western movies.
'To bite the dust' means to die, to fall to defeat, or to fail to succeed.
This idiom is over 2,000 years old! In 'The Iliad' Homer describes the Trojan War and how the dying soldiers had fallen with their faces in the dirt. They looked as if they were biting the dust.
This saying became popular in the 1800s and was often heard in early Western movies.
