Death Phrases

Phrases

• A Murder Is Announced (Agatha Christie book)
• A View To A Kill (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• A coward dies a hundred deaths
• A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple
• Another nail in the coffin
• As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner book)
• As dead as a dodo
• As dead as a doornail
• As dead as mutton
• As deaf as a adder
• As deaf as a post
• As silent as the grave
• As stiff as a poker
• As straight as a die
• Ashes To Ashes (David Bowie song)
• Ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee
• At death's door
• At rest
• At the dead of night
• Back from the dead
• Badgered to death
• Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head (The Beatles song lyric)
• Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me (from a poem by Dickinson)
• Better dead than red
• Better off dead
• Bite the big one
• Bleeding like a stuck pig
• Blue murder
• Blue screen of death
• Body bag
• Bone yard
• Bored stiff
• Bored to death
• Bought the farm
• Brain dead
• Bring out your dead
• Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang for dead)
• Brush with death
• Bump off
• Bury the hatchet
• Bury your head in the sand
• Bury yourself in your work
• Buy the farm
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Cash if you die, cash if you don't (Lloyd's Life Insurance advertising slogan)
• Cash in your cheques
• Cash in your chips
• Catch your death of cold
• Celestial discharge
• Cement overcoat
• Check out
• Chew a gun
• Chicago overcoat
• Chivalry is not dead
• Coffin nail
• Come to a sticky end
• Come to grief
• Commercial suicide
• Cop a packet
• Cot death
• Cowards may die many times before their death
• Cross To The Other Side (The Inspirations song)
• Cross my heart and hope to die
• Curiosity killed the cat
• Curl up and die
• Cut out the dead wood
• Cut someone dead
• Dance of death
• Dance on someone's grave
• 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
• 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
• Dialogue of the deaf
• Dice with death
• Dick and Jane is dead (Encyclopaedia Britannica advertising slogan)
• Die Another Day (James Bond movie Pierce Brosnan)
• Die a death
• Die back
• Die hard
• Die in harness
• Die in your own bed
• Die on the vine
• Die with your boots on
• Dig your own grave
• Do not go gentle into that good night (from a poem by Dylan Thomas)
• Do or die
• Do something to death
• Domestos kills all known germs - Dead! (Domestos Bleach advertising slogan)
• Done to death
• Down among the dead men
• Dressed to kill
• Drop dead
• Drop dead gorgeous
• Drop dead list
• Drop down dead
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Dropped off the perch
• Dropping like flies
• Dying breed
• Dying on your arse
• Dying out
• Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die
• Eat shit and die
• Eternal rest
• Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die
• Face your maker
• Fall asleep
• Fall on deaf ears
• Famous last words
• Fate worse than death
• Fear the worst
• Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
• Flogging a dead horse
• From the cradle to the grave
• Gathered to God
• Get away with murder
• Get busy living, or get busy dying (line from the movie The Shawshank Redemption)
• Give me liberty or give me death
• Given up for dead
• Go down for the third time
• Go in for the kill
• Go over to the other side
• Go the way of all flesh
• Go to sleep
• God is dead (philosophical comment by Friedrich Nietzsche)
• Gone to a better world
• Good Americans when they die go to Paris
• Good and dead

• Good grief
• Grim death
• Grip of death
• Group of death (the most difficult or competitive group in a sports tournament)
• Had a good innings
• Hang by the neck until dead
• Hang on like grim death
• Hanged, drawn and quartered
• Happy hunting ground
• Hard work never killed anyone
• Hatch, match and dispatch
• Have you any last requests? (humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed)
• He crept into the crypt, crapped, and crept out again
• He who lives by the sword shall die by the sword
• He's dead Jim (A catchphrase from Star Trek)
• How To Murder Your Wife (Jack Lemmon movie)
• I could murder a cup of tea
• I could murder a curry
• I don't believe it (A catchphrase from Victor Meldrew, One Foot In The Grave)
• I see dead people (The Sixth Sense)
• I wouldn't be caught dead
• I'd kill for a cup of tea
• If I tell you, I'll have to kill you
• If it ain't Stiff it ain't worth a f*ck (Stiff Records advertising slogan)
• If looks could kill
• If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying (Bob Dylan song lyric)
• In at the death
• In at the kill
• In the grave
• In the midst of life we are in death
• Into the valley of death rode the six hundred
• It's your funeral
• Keep a stiff upper lip
• Kick the bucket
• Kicking dead whales down the beach
• Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino movie)
• Kill or be killed
• Kill or cure
• Kill stone dead
• Kill the fatted calf
• Kill the goose that lays the golden egg
• Kill time
• Kill time until time kills you
• Kill two birds with one stone
• Kill with kindness
• Kills bugs dead (Raid advertising slogan)
• Kiss of death
• Knacker's yard
• Knock 'em dead
• Last gasp
• Last will and testament
• Left for dead
• Let the dead bury the dead
• Licence To Kill (James Bond movie Timothy Dalton)
• Licensed to kill
• Life after death
• Life and death struggle
• Life's a bitch then you die
• Like being savaged by a dead sheep
• Like death warmed up
• Live And Let Die (James Bond movie Roger Moore)
• Live as if you will die tomorrow but learn as if you will live forever (Mahatma Ghandhi quotation)
• Live free or die
• Living on borrowed time
• Look death in the eye
• Loud enough to waken the dead
• Matter of life and death
• Meat is murder
• Merchant of death
• More dead than alive
• Murder On The Dance Floor (Sophie Ellis-Bexter song)
• Murder will out
• Mutt and Jeff (Cockney rhyming slang for deaf)
• Near death experience
• Never say die
• Never speak ill of the dead
• No longer with us
• Not with a bang but a whimper (from a poem by Eliot)
• Nothing is certain but death and taxes
• Numbered with the dead
• Oh my God, they killed Kenny (A catchphrase from South Park)
• Old habits die hard
• Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
• On death row
• On pain of death
• One Foot In The Grave (BBC comedy television series)
• One foot in the grave
• Ours is not to wonder why, ours is just to do or die
• Out of the jaws of death
• Over my dead body
• Pass on
• Pass over to the other side
• Play dead
• Post mortem
• Pull the pin
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Put to death
• Rage, rage, against the dying of the light
• Raise the dead
• Rictus grin
• Rigor mortis
• Road kill
• Roll over and play dead
• Root hog or die
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• Saved by the bell
• Scared stiff
• Scared to death
• Scream bloody murder
• Scream blue murder
• See Naples and die
• Shoot to kill
• Short shrift
• Shrouds have no pockets
• Sick to death of
• Someone walked on my grave
• Sprout wings
• Stand before your maker
• Stiff competition
• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone (from a poem by Auden)
• Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) (Kelly Clarkson song)
• Suicide is painless (title of the theme song to MASH tv series and film)
• Suicide pill
• Supreme sacrifice
• Swan song
• Tell Laura I Love Her (Ricky Valance song)
• That which does not kill us makes us stronger (Friedrich Nietzsche quotation)
• That's your funeral
• The Adventure of the Dying Detective (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Angel of Death (Nickname of Josef Mengele)
• The Day of the Dead (Horror movie)
• The Grim Reaper
• The Hypochondriac's Guide To Life And Death (Gene Weingarten book)
• The King is dead, long live the King
• The Living Death (Nickname of Lew Jenkins)
• The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (Bob Dylan song)
• The Masque of the Red Death
• The body is still warm
• The coward's way out
• The departed
• The die has been cast
• The empty chair (the perceived absense of someone who is recently deceased)
• The eternal checkout
• The good die young
• The only good Indian is a dead Indian
• The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from Psalm 23)
• The wages of sin is death
• The way of all flesh
• Theirs is not to wonder why, theirs is but to do or die
• There are no pockets in a shroud
• There's none so deaf as they that will not hear
• Those whom the Gods love die young
• Thou shalt not kill
• Three score and ten
• Tickled to death
• Till Death Us Do Part (BBC comedy television series)
• Time to kill
• To Kill A Mockingbird (Gregory Peck movie)
• To die for
• Tone deaf
• Turning in his grave
• Until death do us part
• Until your dying day
• Video Killed The Radio Star (The Buggles song)
• Wall of death
• Wanted, dead or alive
• Whispering Death (Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer)
• Who killed Cock Robin (line from nursery rhyme)
• Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog's eye (Beatles song lyric)
• You can't take it with you
• You'll be the death of me
• You're a long time dead
• Your days are numbered

Related

• 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
• Bored to death
• Brush with death
• Cake or death (line from Eddie Izzard comedy)
• Catch your death of cold
• 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
• Done to death
• Fate worse than death
• 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
• In at the death
• In the midst of life we are in death
• Into the valley of death rode the six hundred
• 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
• Near death experience
• Nothing is certain but death and taxes
• On death row
• On pain of death
• Out of the jaws of death
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Put to death
• Scared to death
• Sick to death of
• 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 reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
• The valley of the shadow of death (line from Psalm 23)
• The wages of sin is death
• Tickled to death
• Till Death Us Do Part (BBC comedy television series)
• Until death do us part
• Wall of death
• Whispering Death (Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer)
• You'll be the death of me