Posthumous Phrases

Phrases

• As dead as a dodo
• As dead as a doornail
• As dead as mutton
• At the dead of night
• Back from the dead
• Better dead than red
• Better late than never
• Better off dead
• Brain dead
• Bring out your dead
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Chivalry is not dead
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut someone dead

• Day late and a dollar short
• Dead Man Walking (Helen Prejean book)
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Steve Martin movie)
• Dead Ringer For Love (Meatloaf song)
• Dead air
• Dead and buried
• Dead and gone
• Dead cat bounce
• Dead cinch
• Dead duck
• Dead easy
• Dead end
• Dead from the neck up
• Dead giveaway

• Dead heads
• Dead heat
• Dead in the water
• Dead issue
• Dead letter
• Dead loss
• Dead man walking
• Dead meat
• Dead men tell no tales
• Dead men's shoes
• Dead of night
• Dead of winter
• Dead on arrival
• Dead on time

• Dead presidents
• Dead reckoning
• Dead ringer
• Dead to rights
• Dead to the world
• Dead white European male (derogatory reference to someone who has an unjustified reputation)
• Dead white male
• Dead wood
• Dick and Jane is dead (Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan)
• Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)
• Down among the dead men
• Drop dead
• Drop dead gorgeous
• Drop dead list

• Drop down dead
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Fashionably late
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Flogging a dead horse
• Given up for dead
• God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Good and dead
• Hang by the neck until dead
• He's dead Jim (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• Hot chocolate, drinking chocolate - the late, late drink (Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate advertising slogan)
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I wouldn't be caught dead
• If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer will cure that headache (Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan)

• It's never too late
• It's never too late to learn
• Kicking dead whales down the beach
• Kill stone dead
• Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
• Knock 'em dead
• Late bloomer
• Late developer
• Late hour
• Late in the day
• Late in the game
• Late lamented
• Left for dead
• Let the dead bury the dead

• Like being savaged by a dead sheep
• Loud enough to waken the dead
• More dead than alive
• Never speak ill of the dead
• Numbered with the dead
• Over my dead body
• Play dead
• Raise the dead
• Roll over and play dead
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• Running late
• See You Late Alligator (Bill Haley song)
• The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late) (The Chipmunks and David Seville song)
• The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)

• The King is dead, long live the King
• The King of Late Night Television (Nickname of Jack Paar)
• The late unpleasantness
• The only good Indian is a dead Indian
• Tonight's top ten list (A catchphrase from David Letterman In The Late Show)
• Too little, too late
• Victory won't wait for the nation that's late (Big Ben Clocks advertising slogan)
• Wanted, dead or alive
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You're a long time dead