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To-die-for. This popular American hyperbole dates from the late 20th century and means that something is so amazing that it is worth dying for. For example, this chocolate cake is to-die-for.
- Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil
- Meet Your Maker
- Give Up The Ghost
- Sing Your Swan Song
- Assume Room Temperature
- Cash in Your Chips
- Pop Your Clogs
It would be impossible for an article talking about the origins of common phrases to not mention Shakespeare at some point. One of the earliest recorded uses of ‘shuffle off this mortal coil’ as an idiom for death is from the famous ‘To be, or not to be’ soliloquy from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In Act 3, Scene 1 of the play, Hamlet says: “For i...
Unsurprisingly, many sayings for death have religious connotations. To ‘meet your maker’ refers to someone’s soul moving on to the afterlife and meeting God, who many religions would consider the creator of everything, including souls or spirits. While the phrase ‘prepare to meet your maker’ has become something of a Hollywood cliché for action fil...
‘Give up the ghost’ is another death euphemism that could have roots in the Bible. Some people believe a person’s spirit, or ghost, is trapped in their body until they die, at which point it moves on to the afterlife. One of the earliest known mentions of the phrase appears in the Bible when describing Jesus’ death on the cross in Mark 15:37: “And ...
There is an ancient belief that swans are silent creatures that sing a beautiful song as they die. It is unclear where this myth started, but there have been references to it as far back as the 3rd century BC. In his notebooks, Leonardo Da Vinci (who died in 1519) even wrote: “The swan is white without spot, and it sings sweetly as it dies, that so...
People have always managed to find humour in death, often as a coping mechanism. The phrase ‘to assume room temperature’ is a slightly comic euphemism for death. When someone dies their circulatory system stops working, leading their body to cool down. Therefore, to say someone has ‘assumed room temperature’ has become a ‘say it without saying it’ ...
To cash in your chips refers to finishing gambling and exchanging your winnings, usually in the form of casino chips, for money. Whether a gambler has spent the night getting richer or poorer, he or she will have to stop eventually, making ‘to cash in your chips’ a rather fitting euphemism for the inevitability of death. While it’s unknown when thi...
Most people think of clogs as the wooden shoes often associated with the Netherlands, when actually any kind of shoe that has a wooden component is referred to as a clog. British factory workers, particularly in northern England, wore wooden-soled shoes to protect their feet as late as the 1920s. It was around this time that ‘popped your clogs’ as ...
Jul 16, 2020 · With his seminal 1995 film “To Die For,” Gus Van Sant proved what many assumed was an impossibility at the apotheosis of indie filmmaking: A director known for making movies apologetically in...
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When did Moses, Aaron and Miriam die? What weird event took place at Moses' grave? The Bible divides Moses' life into three major sections that each last roughly forty years.
Jun 24, 2024 · According to fans on Reddit, the developers said during a live stream that 7 Days to Die's experimental 1.0 beta will launch in the USA at 12pm CST on 24th June. Here in the UK, that...
Apr 23, 2024 · Open-world zombie survival game 7 Days to Die launched in Early Access on Steam in 2013. Three years later, the game arrived on consoles. And now, over a decade after its initial launch, 7 Days...
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