die in harness
English
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)
- Of a person, to die before retirement.
- 1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practive and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 260:
- 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.
Related terms
- die in office
References
- “die in harness”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.