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Phrase(s): The good die young.
Prov. Good people tend to die at an early age. • Marshall’s twenty-year-old son died in a car crash; it did not comfort Marshall to think that the good die young. • Jill: It doesn’t seem fair that Laurie is dead. She was such a wonderful person. Jane: They always say that the good die young.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs