Category · 45 phrases
A list of phrases about death or dying
- A concrete overcoat
- A fate worse than death
- All things must pass
- As dead as a doornail
- Ashes to ashes
- Badger to death
- Bite the dust
- Bless you
- Bought the farm
- Brown bread
- Bucket list
- Come to a sticky end
- Cowards may die many times before their deaths
- Dead in the water
- Die-hard
- Dropping like flies
- Fall on your sword
- For whom the bell tolls
- Give up the ghost
- God is dead
- Gone for a burton
- Graveyard shift
- Hanged, drawn and quartered
- Heads will roll
- Here lies one whose name was writ in water
- Kick the bucket
- Laid out in lavender
- Lamb to the slaughter
- Late husband
- Living on borrowed time
- Morbid obesity
- Old soldiers never die
- One foot in the grave
- Out of the jaws of death
- Over my dead body
- Peg out
- Pop your clogs
- Put on the wooden overcoat
- Short shrift
- Shuffle off this mortal coil
- Someone is walking over my grave
- Swan song
- The quick and the dead
- Three score and ten
- Your days are numbered