bite the dust

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to die

   Our matriarch bites the dust, and this is how we move on?

   Another one bites the dust, brother.

In the movies · 3

• Our matriarch bites the dust, and this is how we move on?In the Heights2021
• Another one bites the dust, brother.The Expendables2010
• Another one bites the dust.Venom: Let There Be Carnage2021
• Another independent bites the dust.You've Got Mail1998
• And another one bites the dust.Sex and the City2008
• - Another sponsor bite the dust? - They come, they go.Herbie: Fully Loaded2005

From the same entry

• be bitten by
• bite the bullet
• bite the hand that feeds you
• bite your lip
• bite off more than you can chew
• bite your tongue
• the hair of the dog
• bite head off
• once bitten, twice shy
• bite back
• bite back
• bite into