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1. (俗語，委婉) 死亡
   • 1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book XXII., page 293

     Ulysses killed Demoptolemus, Telemachus Euryades, Eumæus Elatus, while the stockman killed Pisander. These all bit 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 dead

   • 1877, Frances Fuller Victor, Eleven years in the Rocky Mountains and a life on the frontier, Chapter IX, p. 156

     Three more warriors bit the dust...

   • 2021 12月 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, 出自 RAIL, 期 947，頁號 61:

     Tons of engine sheds would bite the dust with 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.

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2. (俗語) 打退堂鼓，收手；失败
   • 1979, “”, 作曲:

     London calling, now don't look to us / Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust

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   My old backpack finally bit the dust the other day.

   前几天我的旧背包终于坏了。