Idioms based on death 1

By Cecilia Brabin | March 15, 2010

Idioms based on death

dead to the world

fast asleep

give up the ghost

dead, no longer operational (usually refers to machinery etc)

at death’s door

seriously unwell

breathe your last

to die

dead as a doornail

an indication that something is lifeless

death warmed up

looking very ill indeed

the graveyard shift

working the night shift or long into the night

risk life and limb

to risk death or serious injury in order to do something

stone dead

no signs of life at all

meet your Maker

to have died

meet a sticky end

die in an unpleasant way

a watery grave

to die by drowning

dead wrong

totally in error or incorrect of opinion

cheat death

narrowly avoid a major problem or accident

kiss of death

an action that will mean failure for a person, scheme or plan etc

a skeleton in the closet

a dark, shameful secret that somebody wishes to remain so

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