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It is an idiom which means to be destroyed, come to an end, or declared dead. Example sentence: The old factory has finally bit the dust after more than a hundred years.
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And a stereotype bit the dust.
Thanks to a government whip and broad cross-party support, the motion was carried, and blasphemy bit the dust.
Two months ago my mouse bit the dust.
It's been 18 years since the Soviet Union and its 75-year experiment with communism bit the dust.
All these cars have since bit the dust, but Lexus still has the SC430 a slimmer, slightly tauter hardtop convertible than the SC coupes it replaces.
First, disco bit the dust.
As these bit the dust, I migrated toward pants and flared, knee-length skirts.
It was cathartic and confusing to hear, aged 11, as my dreams of being a vampire bit the dust.
"The two big courtroom centered strategies for weakening teacher union power both kind of bit the dust in the last few weeks," he said.
Some 60 years later, a quarter-century after Orwell's imagined future bit the dust, the phrase is, in a number of ways, eerily applicable to the United States.
The second thing that bit the dust today was the notion that the British economy could survive on finance alone.
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