die in harness

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Of a person, to pass away before retirement. idiomatic,informal
    — As he himself [Sir Nigel Gresley] would doubtless have wished, he died in harness; only a few weeks previously he had been present at the first public view of his latest design, the Bantam Cock, which, like most of his products, bore all over it the impress of his personality.

词形变化

dies in harness present,singular,third-person dying in harness participle,present died in harness participle,past died in harness past

词源

By metaphor from the literal sense referring to working horses dying while on the job, wearing their harness.
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