Meaning of bite the big one | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To die.
   slang
2. To break down; to be impossible to repair or not worth repairing.
   slang
3. To perform poorly; to fail.
   idiomatic
4. To be unpleasant or undesirable.
   slang
5. To perform fellatio.
   slang

Examples

“Fly⟳, be free! Well, I guess⟳ we'll have⟳ to have⟳ a quick burial at sea then. I'll notify your next of kin. Your brother bit the big one.”

“"I thought all of dad's relatives bit the big one a long time ago."”

“Whatever air-conditioning system the car had once possessed had bitten the big one years ago; ...”

“Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own⟳ in the United States.”

“To Verdi, it bit the big one, but that was the way it worked.”

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