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17 phrases found for the topic Death

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Danger     • Life     • Risk     • Sadness     • Enemies     • Fear     • Punishment     • Rest     • Betrayal     • Emptiness     • Likelihood     • Beginning     • Nature     • Refusal    

 

Phrase: On death row

Meaning: It refers to someone who is in prison awaiting his or her death, which is an atrocity. We are for the abolition of capital punishment everywhere in the world.

Example:
My cousin is on death row, and I am sure that he is innocent because he would not hurt a fly.

Date: 16-01-2020

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Phrase: Put an animal to sleep / Put an animal down

Meaning: To kill it.

Examples:
This dog has to be put to sleep to stop its suffering.
If your puppy does not gets any better, it will have to be put down.

Date: 24-03-2018

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Phrase: Depart (from) this life / this world

Meaning: To die.

Examples:
My husband departed this life last week.
I regret to inform you that he has departed this world. He's in a better place now.

Date: 03-03-2018

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Phrase: The great beyond

Meaning: The afterlife.

Examples:
Does the great beyond exist?
Nobody has returned from the great beyond.
I've got the following message from the great beyond: "Colonialism should be eradicated everywhere in the world. It is a sin."

Date: 09-12-2017

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Phrase: Go to a better place / Be in a better place

Meaning: A euphemism for 'die'. This phrase seems to have religious connotations because there is nothing after death:
I am sorry to tell you that Mr Green is in a better place now (ie, dead).
Do you think that someone goes to a better place when he or she dies?

Date: 26-11-2017

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Phrase: The grim reaper

Meaning: A mythological person that symbolises death

Date: 16-09-2017

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Phrase: A nail in somebody's coffin

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Phrase: Be cut off/down in your prime

Meaning: To die young. To ruin one's career when one is at one's best .

Examples:
That car accident cut her off in her prime. She was only twenty-five years old when she died.
He was a very good football player, but a knee injury cut him down in his prime because he had to stop playing football.

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Phrase: Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death, but once

Author: William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar

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Phrase: Dead men tell no lies

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Phrase: Die a thousand deaths

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Phrase: Die on the vine

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Phrase: I love the name of honour more than I fear death

Author: William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar

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Phrase: Kick the bucket

Meaning: To die: She kicked the bucket last night

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Phrase: Life's a bitch(, and then you die)

Meaning: That is, cruel and unfair. It is used when some misfortune happens to somebody.

Examples:
-I not only lost all my money in that affair, but also my dignity.
-Life is a bitch.

-She was falsely accused of bribery, and sentenced to ten years in prison.
-Life is a bitch, and then you die.

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Phrase: Over my dead body

Meaning: I will not allow that, or will do my best to stop you: You will destroy my farm over my dead body

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Phrase: The kiss of death

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