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die in harness

die in harness verb: of a person, to pass away before retirement.

Verb

die in harness (third-person singular simple present dies in harness, present participle dying in harness, simple past and past participle died in harness)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Of a person, to pass away before retirement.
    • As he himself [Sir Nigel Gresley] would doubtless have wished, he died in harness; only a few weeks previously he had been present at the first public view of his latest design, the Bantam Cock, which, like most of his products, bore all over it the impress of his personality.1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practive and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 260
    Synonyms:
    die in office

die in harness meaning in Tamil and Kannada

die in harness in Tamil

பணியில் உள்ளபோது மரணித்தல், இறுதிவரை உழைத்தல்

die in harness in Kannada

ಕಾರ್ಯನಿರತ ಮರಣ ಹೊಂದು

Synonyms of die in harness

  • die in office

Forms of die in harness

third-person singular presentdies in harness
present participledying in harness
past participledied in harness
pastdied in harness

Origin of die in harness

Refers metaphorically to working horses dying while on the job, wearing their harness.

Questions about die in harness

What does die in harness mean?
Die in harness means of a person, to pass away before retirement.
What is die in harness in Tamil?
Die in harness in Tamil is பணியில் உள்ளபோது மரணித்தல், இறுதிவரை உழைத்தல். See Die in harness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is die in harness?
Die in harness is a verb.
What is the past tense of die in harness?
The past tense of die in harness is died in harness.

Words near die in harness in the dictionary

  1. die grinder
  2. die grinders
  3. die hard
  4. die how one lived
  5. die in a fire
  6. die in harness
  7. die in one's shoes
  8. die in the arse
  9. die in the ass
  10. die in the last ditch
  11. die just how one lived

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Adapted from Wiktionary: die in harness (page history and authors); die in harness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); die in harness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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