bite the big one
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bite the big one
verb bites the big one · biting the big one · bit the big one · bitten the big one
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To die.
Fly, be free! Well, I guess we'll have to have a quick burial at sea then. I'll notify your next of kin. Your brother bit the big one.
Similar: bite the dust, buy the farm, buy the big one, kick the bucket, assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord
- To break down; to be impossible to repair or not worth repairing. Whatever air-conditioning system the car had once possessed had bitten the big one years ago; ...
- To perform poorly; to fail. Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own in the United States.
- To be unpleasant or undesirable. To Verdi, it bit the big one, but that was the way it worked.
- To perform fellatio.
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