Another one bites the dust

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Hi everyone

I looked up this phrase, but all the explanations I found describe it as "fail / fall out of the competition / die etc." but it just doesn't fit in this context (or I misunderstood it completely

) I've seen a film and there was a scene in which a girl, upon finding out that her thirty-something boyfriend still lives with his parents, storms out of the house and after that we see the guy's parents lying in bed and his dad says "Another one bites the dust". Isn't that supposed to mean something like "Another one who left him for the same reason"?

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

Loojka"Another one who left him for the same reason"

You have got the idea.
He has had a long series of girlfriends, and all of the relationships failed. His parents just expect this to happen every time.

The phrase comes from old cowboy stories. They have a rodeo where a cowboy has to ride a wild horse that does not want a human on its back. So the horse jumps and bucks, and the cowboy is thrown off, face down in the dirt. He has a mouthful of dirt - he bites the dust. He failed to win a prize for staying on the horse.
Another situation is when the good guys are chasing a bad guy riding horses. They are shooting at each other. The bad guy gets hit, falls off his horse, face won in the dirt. He is dead. He bit the dust.

Loojka · Answer

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