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Phrase(s): die in one’s boots [and] die with one’s boots on
Fig. to go down fighting; to die in some fashion other than in bed; to die fighting. (Popularized by western movies. Heroes and villains of these movies said they preferred death in a gunfight to showing cowardice or giving up.) • I won’t let him get me. I’ll die in my boots.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs