lay down your life

lay down your life
   to be killed in wartime
   There are overtones of voluntary sacrifice:
    David Haden-Guest... also laid down his life. (Boyle, 1979)
   A civilian may lay down his burden or his knife and fork. A Scotsman might also have been said to lay down his clay, the clay being the human body:
    I'll soon lay down the clay, yet ere I go away I'd like to see the brig across to Tony. (Ogg, 1873)

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