| 单词 | to breathe one's last |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto breathe one's last (breath or gasp) P1. to breathe one's last (breath or gasp) and variants: to die, expire. ΚΠ 1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 19 When the spirite giues vp and bodie breathes his last. 1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 ii. i. 108 Where your braue father breath'd his latest gaspe. 1651 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 82. 1247 The kingdome, languishing and ready to breath out her last. 1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) iii. 28 Not louder Shrieks by Dames to Heav'n are cast, When Husbands or when Monkeys breath their last. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xcvi. 146 Where he breathed his latest breath . View more context for this quotation 1993 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 16 Sept. j1/2 Most Estonian homes have saunas—the warmest room in the house where children are often born and old people breathe their last gasp. 2004 I. M. Banks Algebraist (2005) iv. 251 The tipping point into revelation and deliverance for all might come..at the point that an unreformable heathen breathed their last. < as lemmas |
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