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View synonyms for breathe one's last

breathe one's last



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Idioms and Phrases

Die, as in Aunt Agatha breathed her last on Tuesday . This term was used by Shakespeare in 3 Henry VI (5:2): “Montague has breathed his last.” It has survived but today is considered a poetic euphemism.
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Example Sentences

It is permissible to inhale but not to breathe one's last breath.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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