bite the big one
verb1
Slang 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.1978 September 14, Dale McRaven, Mork & Mindy, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Mork (Robin Williams):
- "I thought all of dad's relatives bit the big one a long time ago."1983, Susan Arnout, The Frozen Lady, page 397:
2
Slang 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; ...1988, Barbara Hambly, The silicon mage, page 5:
3
Idiomatic 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.1990, Norman Spinrad, Science fiction in the real world, page 183:
4
Slang To be unpleasant or undesirable.
- To Verdi, it bit the big one, but that was the way it worked.1996, Stephen Kimball, Death duty, page 9:
5
Slang To perform fellatio.