turn to dust

English

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Verb

turn to dust (third-person singular simple present turns to dust, present participle turning to dust, simple past and past participle turned to dust)

  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To die or disappear.
    • 1996, Neil Diamond, If I Lost My Way:
      If I lost my dreams
      Could I keep your trust
      Promise that our love
      Would not turn to dust
    • 2025 April 25, Jonathan Freedland, “Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      Now he threatens to walk away from Ukraine altogether, impatient to get a deal in time for his 100th-day celebrations on Tuesday. That’s typical too: so often Trump’s grand plans turn to dust because, if he doesn’t get an instant reward, he gets bored and drifts away.
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