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 ...

Jul 5, 2017 · 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.

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

Apr 13, 2015 · 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"?

Mar 8, 2016 · Die of is rather more frequent than die from in both the Corpus of Contemporary American English and the British National Corpus, and by a greater ratio in the latter. It would take a closer examination of the corpora to see if there was much difference in …

Jun 19, 2019 · Proves that it is correct are: movie "Til death do us apart" (2018) and various songs titled with "Apart". Proves that "Part" is correct: the actual oath, wiki and various songs titled with "Part". The problem with "Part" is it does not sounds as "cool" as "Apart" for me (personal preference), but at the same time I wouldn't do a shirt with ...

Jan 24, 2016 · The Greek translates rather as “let the die be cast!”, or “Let the game be ventured!” It would appear as though the Die referred to, was the singular form of a pair of Dice. In other words one the die had been thrown (cast), the result could not be changed, as in a gamble.

Jan 15, 2016 · 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."

May 18, 2023 · @Pryftan: I don't think the OED is the arbiter of "English proper". (And note that it theoretically covers all forms of English, so if it's missing a sense that's known to occur in AmE then that's a gap in the OED rather than an implicit claim by the OED that it doesn't occur in BrE.) Do you have any evidence that this use doesn't occur in BrE?

To do your due diligence is now usually used simply to mean checking off every activity you need to complete before making a decision, so that you are not legally liable if your choice comes back to bite you. e.g. consulting the marketing and legal department before changing your brand name. To summarize: "due diligence" = "ass covering"