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The slang phrase (UK arse, US as*s) can be used to represent several separate and distinct situations:

1) urban slang - When someone releases flatulence (farts) and the odor is particularly bad. "Yuck! It smells like something's died in the arse!"

2) US, UK idiom - More commonly, it is used to indicate failure or inability to perform an action, so that one may say an electronic device "died in the arse" (a*ss) when it will not respond at all in its normal functions. Similarly, one's plans could "die in the arse" if they never proceed (in this case, synonymous with the idiom "never got off the ground").

3) slang - Some have used the phrase "die in the arse" or "die in the bum" to mean having a big fright. It refers to the primal flight-or-fight response of blood draining away from non-essential organs.

4) slang - As with #1, to defecate in one's pants. (In this instance, the slang scared shi*less is more commonly used).

(see the dictionary link below)

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