Funeral Phrases

Phrases

• As straight as a die
• Ashes To Ashes (David Bowie song)
• Ashes to ashes dust to dust
• At death's door
• Badgered to death
• Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me (from a poem by Dickinson)
• Blue screen of death
• Bored to death
• Brush with death
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Cash if you die, cash if you don't (Lloyd's Life Insurance advertising slogan)
• Catch your death of cold
• Cot death
• Cowards may die many times before their death
• Cross my heart and hope to die
• Curl up and die
• Dance of death
• Dearly beloved
• Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today
• 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
• Dice with death
• Die Another Day (James Bond movie Pierce Brosnan)
• Die a death
• Die back
• Die hard
• Die in harness
• Die in your own bed
• Die on the vine
• Die with your boots on
• Do or die
• Do something to death
• Done to death
• Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die
• Eat shit and die
• Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die
• Fate worse than death
• Floral tribute
• Give me liberty or give me death
• God rest his soul
• Good Americans when they die go to Paris
• Grim death
• Grip of death
• Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
• Hang on like grim death
• He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword
• In at the death
• In the midst of life we are in death
• Into the valley of death rode the six hundred
• It's your funeral
• Kiss of death
• Life after death
• Life and death struggle
• Life's a bitch then you die
• Like death warmed up
• Live And Let Die (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever (Mahatma Ghandhi quotation)
• Live free or die
• Look death in the eye
• Matter of life and death
• Merchant of death
• Near death experience
• Never say die
• Nothing is certain but death and taxes
• Old habits die hard
• Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
• On death row
• On pain of death
• Ours is not to wonder why, ours is just to do or die
• Out of the jaws of death
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Put to death
• Rite of passage
• Root hog or die
• Scared to death
• See Naples and die
• Sick to death of
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• That's your funeral
• The Angel of Death (Nickname of Josef Mengele)
• 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 Premature Burial
• The die has been cast
• The good die young
• 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
• Theirs is not to wonder why, theirs is but to do or die
• Those whom the Gods love die young
• Tickled to death
• Till Death Us Do Part (BBC comedy television series)
• To die for
• Until death do us part
• Wake Me Up Before You Go-go (Wham song)
• Wake up and smell the coffee
• Wake up call
• Wall of death
• Whispering Death (Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer)
• You'll be the death of me