Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “bite the dust” and its meaning is “fail, flop, be unsuccessful, break down, collapse, fall through, founder, come to an end, come to nothing”.
Example Sentence: The line from the famous song by Queen (Farrokh Bulsara), “Another One Bites the Dust”, appears to be the swansong for another airline in India. In the 1990s, an airline with promise, Damania Airways, went bust. This week, the Wadias declared insolvency for their airline, Go First, bringing down the curtains on another airline company.
This phrase is present in And another airline bites the dust and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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