Bite the Dust
What it means
Fail, break down or die, depending on whether the subject is a plan or a person.
Where it comes from
Translations of Homer have fallen warriors biting the earth or the dust, long before Westerns wore the phrase out. The picture is a man going down face first.
The puzzle it came from
Bite the Dust was the answer to the Phrasicle of September 11, 2025. The clue read ____ the ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.
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world
record
deal
breaker
switch
first
lady
bug
bite
mark
hotel
lobby
group
think
fast
movie
star
dust
cloud
nine
Phrasicle: Bite the Dust