be dead and gone;breathe one’s last; die; give (/yield) up the ghost;go off like the snuff of a candle; go the way of all flesh (/all the earth/nature); go west; it is all over with sb; join the majority; kick the bucket; turn up one’s toes ❍ 接着不到半年,弈谟的老妻也~。(爱新觉罗·溥仪《我的前半生》31) Yi Mo’s wife also died within the year. ❍ 汤峻岩说: “杀两个叫化子开张!”这两个叫化子就是这样~了。(《毛泽东选集》26) Tang Junyan said,“Let me make a start by killing a couple of beggars! ”and so these two lives were snuffed out.
一命呜呼
dying;kicking thebucket
一命呜呼yī mìnɡ wū hū
呜呼:叹词。表示哀叹。指人死亡了。die, breathe one’s last, have one’s life snuffed out, breathe out one’s life