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Also connotes dying in combat. British; cf. Iron Maiden's Die With Your Boots On. Didn't make it Killed in action (see below) Euphemistic Done for [1] About to die Neutral Drop dead [1] Die suddenly Neutral also slang aggressive dismissal Dropping like flies [8] Dying in droves Simile: also falling ill in numbers Drop the Body Died Euphemistic
Flies" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the June 1953 issue of Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , and later appeared in Asimov's collections Nightfall and Other Stories (1969).
(March comes) in like a lion, (and goes) out like a lamb; In the kingdom of the blind, the one eyed man is king; In the midst of life, we are in death; Into every life a little rain must fall; It ain't over till/until it's over; It ain't over till the fat lady sings; It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
DYING I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm The eyes beside had wrung them dry, And breaths were gathering sure For that last onset, when the king Be witnessed in his power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,– and then
The caladrius, according to Roman mythology, is a snow-white bird that lives in the king's house. It is said to be able to take the sickness into itself and then fly away, dispersing the sickness and healing both itself and the sick person.
In his final moments, “House of the Dragon’s” King Viserys was, well, not quite himself. Enfeebled and riddled with disease, his final words were spoken in an empty, darkened room.
Even if you are hit, you can still fight. That's not just bullshit either. I want men like the lieutenant in Libya who, with a Luger against his chest, swept aside the gun with his hand, jerked his helmet off with the other and busted the hell out of the Boche with the helmet. Then he picked up the gun and he killed another German.
The Flies (French: Les Mouches) is a play by Jean-Paul Sartre, produced in 1943. It is an adaptation of the Electra myth, previously used by the Greek playwrights Sophocles , Aeschylus and Euripides .