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bite_the_big_one
bite the big one
English
Verb
to bite the big one (third-person singular simple present bites the big one, present participle biting the big one, simple past bit the big one, past participle bitten the big one)
- (idiomatic) To die.
- 1983, Susan Arnout, The Frozen Lady, page 397:
- "I thought all of dad's relatives bit the big one a long time ago."
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- (idiomatic)To break down; to be impossible to repair or not worth repairing.
- 1988, Barbara Hambly, The silicon mage, page 5:
- Whatever air-conditioning system the car had once possessed had bitten the big one years ago; ...
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- (idiomatic) To perform poorly; to fail.
- 1990, Norman Spinrad, Science fiction in the real world, page 183:
- Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own in the United States.
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- (idiomatic) To be unpleasant or undesirable.
- 1996, Stephen Kimball, Death duty, page 9:
- To Verdi, it bit the big one, but that was the way it worked.
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Synonyms
(die): bite the dust, buy the farm, kick the bucket, see Wikisaurus:die