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Breathe one's last

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To die. euphemistic, idiomatic

    "Ah, Warwick! Montague hath breathed his last; And to the latest gasp cried out for Warwick,"

  2. 2
    To be defeated. uncommon

    "For the longest while, the loss didn't seem real. For going on four hours, I'd done pretty much what I wanted to on that mound. I couldn't just shut that off, now that we had finally breathed our last."

Etymology

Perhaps first used in Shakespeare's Henry VI, part 3 (c. 1591). Compare breathe (“to live”).

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