Bite The Big One

‘Bite the big one’ is an idiom used to refer to dying without actually saying the word die or death. It is a very informal way to talk about the end of someone’s life, and, given its informal nature, it is commonly used in a jocular fashion or is used to talk about someone you may not have liked. The origins of this phrase are unclear, but one possibility is that it comes from the phrase bite the bullet, where biting a bullet offers a chance of survival but biting the big one, whatever that might be, means almost certain death… read more >