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turn to dust en · VERB
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(idiomatic, intransitive) To die or disappear.
If I lost my dreams
Could I keep your trust
Promise that our love
Would not turn to dust
1996, Neil Diamond, If I Lost My Way: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.
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:
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