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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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