die with one's boots on

Also, die in harness. Expire while working, keep working to the end, as in He'll never retire—he'll die with his boots on, or She knows she'll never get promoted, but she wants to die in harness. Both phrases probably allude to soldiers who died on active duty. Until the early 1600s the noun boot denoted a piece of armor for the legs, which may have given rise to this usage; and Shakespeare used harness in the sense of armor when he wrote: “At least we'll die with harness on our back” (Macbeth 5:5).

Words nearby die with one's boots on

diet pyramid, Dietrich, Dietrich von Bern, Dieu et mon droit, Dieu vous garde, die with one's boots on, dif, diff, diffeomorphism, differ, difference

单词	die with one's boots on
释义	die with one's boots on Also, die in harness. Expire while working, keep working to the end, as in He'll never retire—he'll die with his boots on, or She knows she'll never get promoted, but she wants to die in harness. Both phrases probably allude to soldiers who died on active duty. Until the early 1600s the noun boot denoted a piece of armor for the legs, which may have given rise to this usage; and Shakespeare used harness in the sense of armor when he wrote: “At least we'll die with harness on our back” (Macbeth 5:5). Words nearby die with one's boots on diet pyramid, Dietrich, Dietrich von Bern, Dieu et mon droit, Dieu vous garde, die with one's boots on, dif, diff, diffeomorphism, differ, difference The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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