bite the dust | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,euphemistic)Todie.1900,Samuel Butler, transl.The Odyssey, Book XXII., page 293Ulysses killed Demoptolemus, Telemachus Euryades, Eumæus Elatus, while the stockman killed Pisander. These allbit 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 dead1877,Frances Fuller Victor,Eleven years in the Rocky Mountains and a life on the frontier, Chapter IX, p. 156Three more warriorsbit the dust...2021December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, inRAIL, number947, page61:Tons of engine sheds wouldbite the dustwith the end of steam, and many would be demolished with their time in the spotlight over. We're lucky that the one at Didcot survived into preservation.; (idiomatic)Toquit, orfail.My old backpack finallybit the dustthe other day.1979, “London Calling”,The Clash(music):London calling, now don't look to us / Phony Beatlemania hasbitten the dust

Examples:

EN: And two more bite the dust.
ES: Luego toma una ametralladora.
EN: We are right and with His help our legions must make the Rebels bite the dust
ES: Nosotros tenemos la razón. Somos justos. Y con su ayuda, nuestras legiones convertirán a los rebeldes en polvo.
EN: They really wish me to bite the dust and inherit my money!
ES: ¡Realmente me desean morder el polvo y heredar mi dinero!
EN: You slowly get used to the fact that people bite the dust in our profession.
ES: Poco a poco uno se hace a la idea de que la gente muerde el polvo en nuestra profesión.
EN: That old fool is going to bite the dust pretty soon.
ES: Ese viejo chocho la va a palmar pronto.
EN: Hey, such a stomp on me, buddy, and you made me bite the dust!
ES: Jolines, qué pisotón. ¡Me ha hecho usted polvo!
EN: But one day he'll bite the dust.
ES: Pero dispara primero. Pero un día morderá el polvo.
EN: He knew that he had to bite the dust / believe in it(? )
ES: Sabía que acabaría muriendo.
EN: When they walk, they hug the walls, eyes cast down and shoulders drooping, clutching at the stones of the facades, with the weary gestures of a defeated army, of those who bite the dust.
ES: Caminan rozando los muros, con la cabeza gacha, los hombros caídos, las manos crispadas rozando las piedras de las fachadas, con gestos fatigados de vencidos, de mordedores de polvo.
EN: ¤ You'll bite the dust, traitors to the company.
ES: Ya morderán el polvo, traidores a la empresa.
EN: For g0d's sake talk or I'll bite the dust.
ES: - El tipo insiste.
EN: You'll make that old conservative bite the dust.
ES: Debe hacer morder el polvo a ese viejo reaccionario. Sé lo que hacer.
EN: All you germs, bite the dust.
ES: Microbios, todos ustedes, muerdan el polvo.
EN: Only way I get tenure is if a half-dozen old farts in the English department bite the dust.
ES: Sólo me lo darán cuando mueran 6 inútiles del departamento de Inglés.
EN: I just saw Colombia bite the dust.
ES: Que Colombia está arruinada.

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