yield the ghost
English
Alternative forms
Verb
- (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
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