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KISS THE DUST

Specialty Definition: KISS THE DUST

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Literature

Kiss the Dust To die, or to be slain. In Psalm lxxii. 9 it is said, "his enemies shall lick the dust." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Multilingual Slang

Hungarian (megbuhera'lni). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: KISS THE DUST

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Screenplays

The aim of all living things is eventually to kiss the dust. (Underworld; writing credit: Larry Bishop)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: KISS THE DUST

Language Translations for "KISS THE DUST"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

megalázza magát (abase oneself, to kiss the dust, to kiss the ground, to lick the dust, to stoop). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isskay ethay ustday.(various references)

   

Romanian

  

se umili (cower, crouch, eat humble pie, grovel, lower, prostrate, truckle), fi înfrânt (be on one's back, get the worse of it, kick the beam, lie on one's back), arãta supunere totalã. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bita i gräset (bite the dust). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

бути морально приниженим. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: KISS THE DUST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-k-s-s-s-t-t-u"

-3 letters: duskiest, dustiest, huskiest, sudsiest.

-4 letters: desists, disuses, duskish, huskies, hussies, shikses, situses, studies, theists, tissued, tissues, tushies, tussehs.

-5 letters: deists, desist, dhutis, dishes, disses, disuse, duties, heists, hissed, hisses, histed, husked, huskie, hutted, issued, issues, kissed, kisses, kithed, kithes, kitted, sheiks, shiest, shikse, shists, shtiks, shuted, shutes, skited, skites, sudses, suited, suites, sushis.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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