Phrase thesaurus
Grave Phrases
122 phrases and expressions related to "grave".
Phrases
- Another nail in the coffin
- As silent as the grave
- At death's door
- Badgered to death
- Bag of bones
- Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me (from a poem by Dickinson)
- Blue screen of death
- Body snatcher
- Bone yard
- Bored to death
- 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)
- Catch your death of cold
- Coffin corner
- Coffin dodger
- Coffin nail
- Cot death
- Cowards may die many times before their death
- Dance of death
- Dance on someone's grave
- 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 a death
- Dig your own grave
- Do something to death
- Done to death
- Fate worse than death
- Feel it in your bones
- From the cradle to the grave
- Give me liberty or give me death
- Graven image
- 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)
- I told you I was ill (Spike Milligan line inscribed on his gravestone)
- I'm a doctor, not a (A catchphrase from Leonard 'Bones' Mccoy In Star Trek)
- 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
- Jump someone's bones
- Kiss of death
- Lazy bones
- Let the dead bury the dead
- Life after death
- Life and death struggle
- Like death warmed up
- Look death in the eye
- Make no bones about
- Make old bones
- Matter of life and death
- Merchant of death
- Near death experience
- 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
- Pick the bones out of that
- Put flesh on your bones
- Put the fear of death into someone
- Put to death
- Rattle them bones
- Scared to death
- Serious as a heart attack
- Serious bit of kit
- Serious money
- Sick to death of
- Six feet under
- Someone walked on my grave
- Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
- The Angel of Death (Nickname of Josef Mengele)
- 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 Premature Burial
- The bare bones
- 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)
- Tomb Raider (Angelina Jolie movie)
- Turning in his grave
- Until death do us part
- Wall of death
- War cemetery
- Whispering Death (Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer)
- Whistling in a graveyard
- You cannot be serious (A catchphrase from John McEnroe)
- You'll be the death of me
Related
- As silent as the grave
- Dance on someone's grave
- Dig your own grave
- From the cradle to the grave
- I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
- In the grave
- One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
- One foot in the grave
- Someone walked on my grave
- Turning in his grave