bite i gresset
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- bite i graset (juxtaposed Bokmål spelling, sole option in Nynorsk)
Etymology[edit]
Literally "bite the grass", in the sense of biting the grass in one's death struggle
Verb[edit]
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) to bite the dust, to die
- Etter en voldsom duell bet han i gresset.
- After a violent duel he bit the dust.
- (idiomatic) to lose
- Han bet i gresset for sin erkefiende.
- He bit the dust [lost] to his arch-enemy.
References[edit]
- Ordnett.no
- i gresset “bite i gresset” in The Bokmål Dictionary.