Possible Clues:

• Die
• Expire
• Hand over money guarding fool from Washington? On the contrary, that's the last thing you might do!
• Perish, taking a route south of col
• Buy the farm, so to speak
• That's the last thing you might do to sail through a course
• Give the ball to a teammate on opponent's pitch - is that to die for?
• Drinking up a lot of Christmas cheer, wages disappear
• That's the last thing you'd be doing