Corpse Phrases

Phrases

• A head for business and a body for sin
• A healthy mind in a healthy body
• A room without books is like a body without a soul (Marcus Tullius Cicero quotation)
• Another nail in the coffin
• As stiff as a poker
• 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
• Body and soul
• Body bag
• Body blow
• Body building
• Body heat
• Body language
• Body mass index
• Body of evidence
• Body of opinion
• Body off Baywatch, face off Crimewatch
• Body painting (a form of painting that uses the human body as a canvas)
• Body politic
• Body popping
• Body snatcher
• Body surfing
• Bored stiff
• Bored to death
• Brush with death
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Catch your death of cold
• Coffin corner
• Coffin dodger
• Coffin nail
• Cold meat
• 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
• Deep six
• Dice with death
• Die a death
• Do something to death
• Do you want a shape like a bra? Or do you want a shape like a woman? (Warner's Body Bra advertising slogan)
• Doesn't have a jealous bone in his body
• Done to death
• Fate worse than death
• Figure painting (a form of painting in which the human body is the subject)
• Fruiting body
• Give me liberty or give me death

• Grim death
• Grip of death
• Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
• Hang on like grim death
• Heavenly body
• If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
• If it ain't Stiff it ain't worth a f*ck (Stiff Records advertising slogan)
• In at the death
• In the midst of life we are in death
• Into the valley of death rode the six hundred
• Keep a stiff upper lip
• Keep body and soul together
• Kiss of death
• Life after death
• Life and death struggle
• Like death warmed up
• Look death in the eye
• Matter of life and death
• Merchant of death
• Milk. It does a body good (Milk Marketing Board advertising slogan)
• Mortal remains
• Mummy porn
• Near death experience
• Nothing is certain but death and taxes
• On death row
• On pain of death
• Out of the jaws of death
• Over my dead body
• Post mortem
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Put to death
• Rigor mortis
• Scared stiff
• Scared to death
• Sick to death of
• Stiff competition
• Stops body odour (Lifebouy Soap advertising slogan)
• Tell them about the honey, mummy (Sugar Puffs advertising slogan)
• The Angel of Death (Nickname of Josef Mengele)
• The Body Guard (Nickname of Baron Davis)
• 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 body is still warm
• The body of evidence
• 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)
• Until death do us part
• Vacation is a world where there are no locks on the doors or the mind or the body (Club Med Resorts advertising slogan)
• Wall of death
• Wardrobe malfunction (when an item of clothing slips out of place to expose part of the body - typically a woman's breast)
• Whispering Death (Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer)
• You too can have a body like mine (Charles Atlas advertising slogan)
• You'll be the death of me
• Yummy mummy