bite the big one
Meet your end
Bite the big one is slang for dying or failing catastrophically.
The "big one" suggests death itself—the ultimate, unavoidable event: He finally bit the big one after years of hard living.
It can also mean to fail badly or be terrible: That movie really bit the big one.
The phrase is informal and often darkly humorous.
Slang for dying
- buy the farmExpire, in slang
- cash in one's chipsTo die
- meet one's makerEuphemism for dying
- give up the ghostDie or stop functioning
croak · shuffle off this mortal coil · go belly up · push up daisies · flatline · expire · pass away · perish
Explosive device or disaster
- flopComplete commercial failure
- tankLarge storage vessel
- crash and burnFail completely and visibly
- blow itFail at crucial moment
choke · fall flat · go down in flames · nosedive · faceplant · botch · bungle · misfire
Move to lower position
kick the bucket
Slang for dying
- buy the farmExpire, in slang
- cash in one's chipsTo die
- meet one's makerEuphemism for dying
give up the ghost · croak · shuffle off this mortal coil · go belly up · push up daisies · flatline · expire · pass away · perish · succumb
bomb
Explosive device or disaster
- flopComplete commercial failure
- tankLarge storage vessel
- crash and burnFail completely and visibly
blow it · choke · fall flat · go down in flames · nosedive · faceplant · botch · bungle · misfire · fizzle out
go down
Move to lower position
bite the big onesurvive
Continue to exist
live · pull through · make it · come back to life · cheat death
bite the big onesucceed
Achieve a desired aim
triumph · make it big · hit the jackpot · nail it · knock it out of the park
bite the big onelive to tell the tale
Outlast danger to narrate
dodge a bullet · keep on trucking · live to fight another day · land on one's feet · beat the odds
bite, bites, bitten, biting, biter, bigger, biggest, bigness, oneness