bite the dust
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The fervor goes beyond the historic rivalry between Pele's Brazil and Diego Maradona's Argentina: Mexico, Colombia, Chile and others are all hoping Lionel Messi's Albiceleste bite the dust on Sunday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Seeing that and other jobs bite the dust was "so disappointing", she says.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2021
We don’t see Tyene bite the dust on-screen, but I can’t imagine Benioff and Weiss suddenly deciding she’s worth the narrative investment to have her wriggle out of this.
From The Verge ● Jul. 31, 2017
First to bite the dust was Baz Luhrmann’s hip-hop fantasia The Get Down.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 24, 2017
Our own hopes bite the dust, our own hearts bury their dead; but we know that law is inexorable.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various
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