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单词 to pass the ghost
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to pass the ghost
47. transitive. To emit or give vent to. to pass the ghost: to die. Obsolete (in later use poetic).
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fetcha1200
to breathe out one's lifea1382
passc1540
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 8216 Ector..macchit hym so harde That he gird to the ground, & the gost past.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge ii. iii. sig. D3v Here is a vent to passe my sighes.
1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia ii. 57 She past a sigh, and said, O ask not who.
1885 ‘M. Field’ Father's Trag. iii. ii Rothsay: You are safe. How felt you dying? Felon: Why I cannot say—But like as you must pass a ghost.
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