Give up the ghost

And Ieſus cryed with a loude voice, and gaue vp the ghoſt.

My old computer finally gave up the ghost the other day.

We've got a problem. A big one. The controller chip for our water purification system has given up the ghost. We can't make another one and the process is too complicated for a work-around system. Simply put, we're running out of drinking water. No water, no Vault.

But McCartney, 50, is hardly ready to give up the ghost of his creative past.

Burnett holds the door while Lowrey holds Francine. She's broken, crying, and giving up the ghost of her past.

Its Windows CE, ostensibly for consumer electronics, is flailing, largely because Microsoft has taken a PC mentality to develop CE, unable to give up the ghost of its heritage.