Wednesday, September 06, 2006

What will I do when you're gone?

Since B A Start appears to have become an etymology blog, can anyone tell me if the idiom "bite the dust" existed anytime between The Iliad and Queen?
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/65500.html

9:46 PM
Johnny said...

I think it was brought back by old westerns before Freddy Mercury kicked it up a notch.

9:42 AM
Mike Garvey said...

I saw it in a Droopy cartoon once. Was that before Homer?

2:42 PM

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