Dying Phrases

Phrases

• As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner book)
• 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 not go gentle into that good night (from a poem by Dylan Thomas)
• Do something to death
• Done to death
• Dying breed
• Dying on your arse
• Dying out
• Fate worse than death
• Get busy living, or get busy dying (line from the movie The Shawshank Redemption)
• 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

• I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens (Woody Allen quotation)
• If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying (Bob Dylan song lyric)
• In at the death
• In the midst of life we are in death
• Into the valley of death rode the six hundred
• Kiss me Hardy (Admiral Nelson quotation)
• 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
• Not long for this world
• Nothing is certain but death and taxes
• On death row
• On pain of death
• One foot in the grave
• Out of the jaws of death
• Put the fear of death into someone
• Put to death
• Rage, rage, against the dying of the light
• Scared to death
• Sick to death of
• The Adventure of the Dying Detective (Sherlock Holmes story)
• 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 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
• Until your dying day
• Wall of death
• Whispering Death (Nickname of Michael Holding - West Indies cricketer)
• You'll be the death of me