Grave Phrases

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