Irreverent ways to say "dead"?

[chic]

The other day, I got into a silly jokey mood with a friend when discussing ways to say "dead".

Pushing up daisies.

Six feet under.

Taking a dirt nap.

We became very creative, but I don't want to steal them all. Please add your faves. Of course no offense intended.

 

[horseless carriage]

Kick the bucket, kicked the oxygen habit, immortality-challenged.
One I like was coined by Shakespeare: Shuffled off this mortal coil.
It's exemplified in the "To be, or not to be" soliloquy, in Hamlet.

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[Laurie]

Cropped out, bought the farm, snuffed it.

 

[Tommy]

Assumed room temperature.

 

[Paco Dennis]

Cash in your chips....Kicked the oxygen habit

 

[Pepper]

Croak

 

[Alligatorob]

Assumed room temperature.

I like all these, but this is a new one to me. Have to remember it.

Years ago I heard a linguist lecture on the spread of the American language up and down the Mississippi river. Most of the expressions were poker related, a game that was made popular on the River Boats, one of them was:

Cash in your chips

A related one I like is "rubbing out", meaning killing of course. This apparently comes from Indian sign language, showing rubbing as a sign of death. It also apparently spread north and south on the river. Hollywood only much later adapted it to gangster movies.

 

[Pepper]

Cement Overshoes, classic part of a wardrobe.

 

[Aunt Marg]

• Stiff as a board
• Somewhere over the rainbow
• Expired
• Reaper came calling for them

 

[ohioboy]

Sliced and diced.

 

[Sunny]

 

[Gary O']

Assumed room temperature.

Oh, that's good

I must filch that'n

 

[Irwin]

Elvis has left the building.

 

[Pepper]

Not in Kansas Anymore

 

[Timetrvlr]

A friend told me his father had "expired". Do you suppose his father's due date was past?

 

[chic]

A friend told me his father had "expired". Do you suppose his father's due date was past?

Actually when my grandmother died the doctor called and said she had expired. I've heard it before too.

 

[Sunny]

I guess it's better to say a person has "expired" than to say that a carton of milk is dead.

 

[Murrmurr]

Assumed room temperature.

And "Took the room-temperature challenge"

 

[jujube]

"Gone to be with Grandpa, Uncle Bubba and Jesus."

 

[Fyrefox]

“Taking the long mud nap,” or “Becoming respirationally impaired.”

 

[Chris P Bacon]

The groundhogs are delivering their mail.

God needed another angel for the choir.

 

[Capt Lightning]

Some time ago, I had a wonderful German manager who was tragically killed in a car crash. Word of his death came , written in German, to a colleague who ran the message through a translator and sent it to me, obviously without checking it first. It advised me that Herr .... "mortally unsuccessful is".

The term "pegged out" is sometimes used to mean 'died'. This may have originated from games such as cribbage or croquet.
Another popular English expression from the RAF in WW2, was "Gone for a Burton". This most likely refers to Burton-on-Trent , the home of English beer making.

 

[chic]

Some time ago, I had a wonderful German manager who was tragically killed in a car crash. Word of his death came , written in German, to a colleague who ran the message through a translator and sent it to me, obviously without checking it first. It advised me that Herr .... "mortally unsuccessful is".

The term "pegged out" is sometimes used to mean 'died'. This may have originated from games such as cribbage or croquet.
Another popular English expression from the RAF in WW2, was "Gone for a Burton". This most likely refers to Burton-on-Trent , the home of English beer making.

Yes. Pegged out is what we do say in cribbage. Not many know that.

 

[Granny B.]

- departed
- checked out
- done for
- lost ("We lost Uncle Bob last night.")

 

[Ruthanne]

Gone.....gone....gone...that's how I was once informed of someone's death.

Demise