1. bite the dust - Verb
2. bite the dust - Phrase
(idiomatic, euphemistic) To die.
(idiomatic) To quit, or fail.
My old backpack finally bit the dust the other day.
When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust. Peter Kropotkin
For the tourist's brown pennies scattered at the old church door, the ragged papooses jump, and bite the dust. A. M. Klein
I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually. Desmond Tutu
However, the BJP candidate Hemant Patel had to bite the dust in the Bhandara-Gondiya seat in the state with the NCP’s Madhukar Kukde snatching the constituency that was won by the BJP in the 2014 poll. Source: Internet
The paper transfer vanishes Aug. 1 from SEPTA's transit system, the latest analog fare tool to bite the dust after Philadelphia's regional transportation authority earlier this year stopped selling tokens in favor of a swipe card. Source: Internet
Christie’s is the latest Lynnway landmark to bite the dust. Source: Internet