die in (one's) boots

To fight back, rather than passively accept something. I know that protesting seems fruitless, but we can't just give up on this cause—we have to die in our boots.

die in one's boots

and die with one's boots on

Fig. to go down fighting; to die in some fashion other than in bed; to die fighting. (Popularized by western movies. Heroes and villains of these movies said they preferred death in a gunfight to showing cowardice or giving up.) I won't let him get me. I'll die in my boots. a gunfight to showing cowardice or giving up.) I won't let him get me. I'll die in my boots.

词组	die in (one's) boots
释义	die in (one's) boots die in (one's) boots To fight back, rather than passively accept something. I know that protesting seems fruitless, but we can't just give up on this cause—we have to die in our boots. See also: boot, die Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. die in one's boots and die with one's boots on Fig. to go down fighting; to die in some fashion other than in bed; to die fighting. (Popularized by western movies. Heroes and villains of these movies said they preferred death in a gunfight to showing cowardice or giving up.) I won't let him get me. I'll die in my boots. a gunfight to showing cowardice or giving up.) I won't let him get me. I'll die in my boots. See also: boot, die McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: die in boots piss up a rope spit in(to) the wind piss in the wind piss in(to) the wind die by die by (something) look on as (something happens) die with (one's) boots on die with one's boots on
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