yield the ghost
English
Alternative forms
- yield up the ghost
Verb
yield the ghost
- (idiomatic) To give up the ghost.
- 1592, Shakespeare, Richard III, I.iv.36-38.
- and often did I strive / To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood / Stopped in my soul, and would not let it forth
- 1592, Shakespeare, Richard III, I.iv.36-38.
Translations
give up the ghost — see give up the ghost