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turn to dust

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turn to dust  (literary)
to become worth nothing Every promise they have made has turned to dust.
See also: dust, turn


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This is hardly surprising as we are currently seeing that the benefits to be derived from hard work in industrialised economies can quickly turn to dust.
d literally grow old, turn to dust and be revived by the loud beeps of your machine finally crashing on you.
She concludes with the impact of the veil on Orientalist fantasy in a nimble analysis of how, in some times and places, some veils can never turn to dust.
 
 
 
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