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cough and die
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cough and die /v./ Syn. barf. Connotes that the program
is throwing its hands up by design rather than because of a bug or
oversight. "The parser saw a control-A in its input where it was
looking for a printable, so it coughed and died." Compare
die, die horribly, scream and die.
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