The term "do or die" comes from Robert Burns' poem "Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn" which was a poem about the first War of Scottish Independence.The last stanza of the poem reads: Lay the proud Usurpers low! Tyrants fall in every foe! Liberty's in every blow! Let us Do or Die! and also Google Books shows usages from late 18th/early 19th ...

2015年4月13日 · The current popular verb for someone who has died is to say they "passed." It sounds incorrect to me -- isn't the proper terminology "passed-away"? I've noticed that people on TV and people under...

The term electrocute was originally coined in 1889¹ by splicing the prefix electro-into the word execute.It originally meant execute (by electric shock).

2017年7月5日 · Perhaps "direct" and "indirect" are an oversimplification. It's more along the lines of proximate versus ultimate causes. You "die of" a proximate cause, whereas you "die from" an ultimate cause. A gunshot wound to the head can be considered an ultimate cause of death, so "die from" is appropriate there.

2023年7月14日 · Also Why do some people pedantically cling to dying word forms (e.g. die, oxen)? and More dice and die confusion – FumbleFingers Commented Jul 14, 2023 at 20:55

2022年11月23日 · The verb die was attested later than the adjective dead, in c1135 per OED. Dead and die have separate etymologies with some overlapping parts, where they share the same stem dau-in Pre-Germanic. We could say that the Scandinavian verb die complemented the Old English adjective dead and the noun death to complete the word family.

2012年9月25日 · Never say die—never say die; Life's worth the living, if we only try; The hand and the brain. Were not given in vain. We've a battle to gain, And so—never say die. Never say die—never say die; If earnings be low and if living be high, 'Tis reason the more. Not to faint or give o'er, Better days are in store, And so—never say die.

2016年1月15日 · With David Bowie and Alan Rickman dying within a few days on each other (RIP), I've heard some people say, "Death always comes in threes, I wonder who's next."

2022年11月16日 · That makes me the union man I am today, and I'll die union. I'm a union man and I'll die a union man and I'll not give up my union rights for $200 a day. I was born to be a teacher, and I'll die a teacher. Born a [Chicago] Bears fan and I'll die a Bears fan! I was born a European and I'll die a European.

2012年8月10日 · To strictly fit the format, you could use thirst in its verb form. Hence. He thirsted to death. However, its use as a verb is relatively rare (indeed, it may well be one of those interesting cases where metaphorical use out-numbers literal, and The athlete thirsted for Olympic gold seems more natural than I thirsted for a decent craft-brewed beer, though both events …