Meaning of die in harness | Babel Free

Definitions

Of a person, to pass away before retirement.

idiomatic, informal

Examples

“As he himself [Sir Nigel Gresley] would doubtless have wished, he died in harness; only a few weeks previously he had been present at the first public view of his latest design, the Bantam Cock, which, like most of his products, bore all over it the impress of his personality.”

CEFR level