die roaring

present singular third person dies roaring · participle present dying roaring · participle past died roaring · past died roaring

1. IrelandcolloquialdatedTo die in agony, especially as divine punishment for a wicked life.

   May you die roaring like Doran's bull!

   1910, Patrick Weston Joyce, “Comparisons”, in English as we speak it in Ireland, London: Longmans, Green, page 137

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   "Did you ever see a fellow hanged?" "I saw dozens of them," he assured me solemnly, "and they all died roaring."

   1939 March, Frank O'Connor, “First Confession”, in Harper's Bazaar

   The genial, white-haired Malachy also enthralled the audience with grim jokes about how Henry VIII and Randolph Churchill died roaring from syphillis.

   1997 September 13, “The court of Malachy”, in The Irish Times