die together; go down together
Idiomatic expression meaning to share the same fate, especially in death or destruction. Often used in dramatic or literary contexts.
They rammed the enemy ship, charging in with the resolve to die together.
He shouted 'If we die, we die together!' and jumped off the cliff.
A neutral, descriptive phrase for 'sharing a fate', without the intense, death-focused nuance of 死なばもろとも.
Standard kanji-kana mixed spelling for this idiomatic expression.
Variant using the kanji 諸共 for もろとも; less common but still seen.
From classical Japanese conditional 死なば (if [one] dies) + もろとも (together). The phrase is a fixed idiomatic expression.