If management ignores the proposal, it dies on the vine before anyone can implement it.

Many promising initiatives died on the vine after the grant was canceled.

After the doctor's appointment, she called her sister and said the rabbit died, and they cried with joy.

She felt a deep dis-ease whenever she had to speak in public.

Scholars debated whether the ancient manuscript's apparent dis legomena were intentional repetitions or copying errors.

The linguist highlighted a peculiar dis legomenon in the corpus, noting that it appeared only twice across all documents.

The statutes specify that only dies juridici may be counted when calculating the deadline for filing an appeal.

Because the evidence was incomplete, the judge postponed the dies juridicus by two weeks.

The villagers called the stormy anniversary a dies infaustus that they would never forget.

After the pond was polluted, many of the native fish died off within a few months.