pay the supreme sacrifice
- pay the supreme sacrifice
to be killed in combat or judicially
More often made than paid. Also as pay the supreme price:
Death in war is unfortunate but unavoidable. Every man who joined MK knew that he might be called on to pay the supreme sacrifice. (Mandela, 1994 — MK, Unkhonto we Sizwe, was the military arm of the African National Congress)
His friends were convinced it was his political radicalism that explained why he was singled out to pay the supreme price for disobedience. (Gentles, 1992, describing Robert Lockyer who was executed after the Leveller mutiny of 1649)
How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms.
R. W. Holder.
2014.
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