bite the dust

Citing inflationary pressures and slumping enrollment, Cazenovia College in central New York will close at the end of the school year, making it among the latest to bite the dust.

The hopes of eight more nations will bite the dust after the first knockout round, which includes England against Senegal and BBC football expert Chris Sutton's adopted nation, Japan.

Three extremely undesirable citizens bite the dust before the scene is over, but there remains one more to be disposed of in the last chapter.

“You told them this government is evil and this government will very soon bite the dust. You did all that, Desmond Tutu.”

Seeing that and other jobs bite the dust was "so disappointing", she says.