breathe one's last

Die, as in Aunt Agatha breathed her last on Tuesday. This term was used by Shakespeare in 3 Henry VI (5:2): "Montague has breathed his last." It has survived but today is considered a poetic euphemism.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Darya (1)	DAHR-yah (Russian)	Russian, Belarusian
Rafael	rah-fah-EL (Spanish), RAH-fah-el (German)	Spanish, Portuguese, German, Hungarian, Slovene, Macedonian
Luken	-	Basque
Teppo	TEP-po	Finnish
Tristram	-	English (British)
Larysa	-	Ukrainian