bite the dust
Literally, to fall face down in the dirt; to suffer a defeat: “Once again, the champion wins, and another contender bites the dust.”
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How to use bite the dust in a sentence
Taylor fought them, crooked judge and all, to a bite-the-dust finish.
The Ranchman | Charles Alden Seltzer
Other Idioms and Phrases with bite the dust
Suffer defeat or death, as in The 1990 election saw both of our senators bite the dust. Although this expression was popularized by American Western films of the 1930s, in which either cowboys or Indians were thrown from their horses to the dusty ground, it originated much earlier. Tobias Smollett had it in Gil Blas (1750): “We made two of them bite the dust.”
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