bite the big one

Definitions

1. 1

   To die.

   • Fly, be free! Well, I guess we'll have to have a quick burial at sea then. I'll notify your next of kin. Your brother bit the big one.
   • "I thought all of dad's relatives bit the big one a long time ago."
2. 2

   To break down

   To break down; to be impossible to repair or not worth repairing.

   • Whatever air-conditioning system the car had once possessed had bitten the big one years ago; ...
3. 3

   To perform poorly

   To perform poorly; to fail.

   • Empire of the Sun was an enormous literary and commercial success in Britain but pretty much bit the Big One on its own in the United States.
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   1. 4

      To be unpleasant or undesirable.

      • To Verdi, it bit the big one, but that was the way it worked.
   2. 5

      To perform fellatio.

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