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Die Boots Actively Occupied Apparently Late 19th Century

Word die with your boots on
Description Die while actively occupied

Die with your boots on was apparently first used in the late 19th century of the deaths of cowboys and others in the American West who were killed in gun battles or hanged. Die while actively occupied

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