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breathe one's last

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  1. Die, as in Aunt Agatha breathed her last on Tuesday. This term was used by Shakespeare in 3 Henry VI (5:2): “Montague has breathed his last.” It has survived but today is considered a poetic euphemism.

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It is permissible to inhale but not to breathe one's last breath.

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