Bury Phrases

Phrases

• Air cover
• Another nail in the coffin
• As brown as a berry
• As silent as the grave
• At death's door
• Badgered to death
• Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me (from a poem by Dickinson)
• Blow your cover
• Blue screen of death
• Bored to death
• Break cover
• Brush with death
• Bury the hatchet
• Bury your head in the sand
• Bury yourself in your work
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Can you dig it?
• Catch your death of cold
• Coffin corner
• Coffin dodger
• Coffin nail
• Companion plant (a plant grown near to another species to enhance its growth)
• Cot death
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Cover story
• Cover the waterfront
• Cover to cover
• Cover your back
• Cover your bases
• Cover your tracks
• Cover yourself with glory
• Cowards may die many times before their death
• Dance of death
• Dance on someone's grave
• Dead and buried
• Death In Venice (Dirk Bogade / Luchino Visconti movie)
• Death On The Nile (Agatha Christie book)
• Death On The Orient Express (Agatha Christie book)
• Death Valley (tourist attraction in Arizona USA)
• Death by PowerPoint
• Death by a thousand cuts
• Death by chocolate
• Death by committee
• Death by misadventure
• Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
• Death metal
• Death of a Salesman (play by Arthur Miller)
• Death trap
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Dice with death
• Die a death
• Dig 'em! (Sugar Smacks advertising slogan)
• Dig A Pony (Beatles song)
• Dig deep
• Dig for victory (WWII slogan)
• Dig in the ribs
• Dig this
• Dig up the dirt
• Dig your heels in
• Dig your own grave
• Digging the dancing queen (ABBA lyric)
• Do something to death
• Done to death
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fate worse than death
• From the cradle to the grave
• Give me liberty or give me death
• Graveyard shift
• Grim death
• Grip of death
• Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
• Hang on like grim death
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
• In at the death
• In the grave
• In the midst of life we are in death
• Into the valley of death rode the six hundred
• Johnny B Goode (Chuck Berry song)
• Kiss of death
• Knock the cover off the ball (A baseball expression meaning succeed beyond expectation)
• Let the dead bury the dead
• Life after death
• Life and death struggle
• Like death warmed up
• Look death in the eye
• Matter of life and death
• Memphis Tennessee (Chuck Berry song)
• Merchant of death
• My Ding A Ling (Chuck Berry song)
• Near death experience
• Never judge a book by its cover
• Nothing is certain but death and taxes
• On death row
• On pain of death
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One foot in the grave
• Out of the jaws of death
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Put to death
• Reelin' And Rockin' (Chuck Berry song)
• Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry song)
• Run for cover
• Scared to death
• Sick to death of
• Someone walked on my grave
• Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry / Beatles song)
• The Angel of Death (Nickname of Josef Mengele)
• The Bandstand Cover Girl (Nickname of Carol Scaldeferri)
• The Graveyard Of The Atlantic (Nickname of Cape Hatteras North Carolina)
• The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And Death (Gene Weingarten book)
• The Living Death (Nickname of Lew Jenkins)
• The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (Bob Dylan song)
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from the Lord's Prayer)
• The wages of sin is death
• Tickled to death
• Till Death Us Do Part (BBC comedy television series)
• Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry song)
• Turning in his grave
• Under cover of darkness
• Until death do us part
• Wall of death
• Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs
• We know where the bodies are buried
• Whispering Death (Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer)
• Whistling in a graveyard
• You Never Can Tell (Chuck Berry song)
• You can't tell a book by looking at its cover
• You'll be the death of me