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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
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As
dead
as a doornail
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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
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Ashes To Ashes ( David Bowie song )
Ask not for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee
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At death's door
At rest
At the
dead
of night
Back from the
dead
Badgered to death
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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
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Brain
dead
Bring out your
dead
Brown bread ( Cockney rhyming slang for
dead
)
Brush with death
Bump off
Bury
the hatchet
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Bury
your head in the sand
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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