Grief Phrases

Phrases

• A countenance more in sorrow than in anger
• A world of pain
• Asking for trouble
• At death's door
• Badgered to death
• Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me (from a poem by Dickinson)
• Better safe than sorry
• Blue screen of death
• Bored to death
• Borrow trouble
• Brush with death
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Catch your death of cold
• Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! (line from the movie 25th Hour)
• Come to grief
• Cot death
• Cowards may die many times before their death
• Dance of death
• 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
• Do something to death
• Don't trouble your pretty little head about it
• Done to death
• Double trouble
• Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble
• Doubled up in pain
• Drown the pain
• Fate worse than death
• Feeling no pain
• Give me liberty or give me death
• Good grief
• Grievous bodily harm
• Grim death
• Grip of death
• Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
• Hang on like grim death
• Happy sad (a bitterweet feeling combining both happiness and sadness)
• Here comes trouble
• I Knew You Were Trouble (Taylor Swift song)
• In at the death
• In the midst of life we are in death
• In trouble
• Into the valley of death rode the six hundred
• Kiss of death
• Life after death
• Life and death struggle
• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon (Woody Allen line)
• Like death warmed up
• Line is full of misery and lonliness and it's over much too soon (Woody Allen line)
• Look death in the eye
• Looking for trouble
• Love means never having to say you're sorry (Love Story)
• Make trouble
• Man Of Constant Sorrow (Bob Dylan song)
• Matter of life and death
• Merchant of death
• Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows
• Misery loves company
• Misery memoire
• More in sorrow than in anger
• My one regret in life is that I am not someone else (Woody Allen line)
• Near death experience
• No pain, no gain
• Nose for trouble
• Nothing is certain but death and taxes
• On death row
• On pain of death
• One for sorrow (Magpie nursery rhyme)
• One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth
• Out of the jaws of death
• Pain barrier
• Pain in the arse
• Pain in the bum
• Pain in the butt
• Pain in the neck
• Parting is such sweet sorrow
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Put to death
• Scared to death
• Sick to death of
• Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (Elton John song)
• Sorry about that, Chief. (A catchphrase from Get Smart)
• Sorry sight
• Stir up trouble
• 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 Prince of Pain (Nickname of comedian Richard Lewis)
• 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
• This is a local shop, we'll have no trouble here (A catchphrase from The League of Gentlemen)
• Tickled to death
• Till Death Us Do Part (BBC comedy television series)
• Trouble and strife (Cockney rhyming slang for wife)
• Trouble in Paradise
• Trouble with a capital T
• Tummy trouble
• Until death do us part
• Up to your neck in trouble
• Wall of death
• What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over
• When I find myself in times of trouble Mother Mary comes to me (Beatles song lyric)
• Whispering Death (Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer)
• Woe is me
• You'll be the death of me