Kick the bucket, bite the dust, croak - everyone knows these terms but you must have a few rarer favorites, don't you? Personally, I like the phrase "Check out time at Motel Earth". What's your best term for the big farewell??
2006-07-13 05:42:55 · 22 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Thank you for sending me to Iraq George!
2006-07-13 05:46:06 · answer #1 · answered by digileet 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Sign hanging over a building at Baghdad International Airport, a few months after the fall of Baghdad: "Hotel California." That building was where soldiers about to go back home would stay until their flight was ready to go. I couldn't help but think of the line from the song, "You can check out any time you like but you can never leave." It's not quite a euphemism, but it works.
2006-07-13 12:46:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can't tell you my favorite ('Cause once you have a few people you love die, "death" is the only one that is real.) but I'll tell you the ones I hate.
Passed. (Sounds like graduating.)
Passed away.
Gone on.
Became immortal. (Prove it!)
In a better place. (BS! The best place was here with me.)
In heaven. (By whose definition?)
The cute and funny, or even morbid, ones like "pushing up daisies," or "food for the worms," just aren't funny when people you care about have died, and the ones like "passed on' feel like someone is trying to pretend nobody dies.
2006-07-13 12:57:26 · answer #3 · answered by LazlaHollyfeld 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FUBARD = fu**ed up bad all ready dead
Circling the drain = for getting ready to die
Celestial discharge = getting out of the hospital by dieing\
or sing " another one bites the dust, another one bites the dust and another ones gone and another ones gone and another one bites the dust"
or to the tune of boogie woogie bugle boy of company 'B' sing 'He's only sleeping, oh yea you know he's not dead, he's only sleeping with a hole in his head, his memories leaking but you know he's not dead. He's only sleeping.......sleeping.'
2006-07-13 12:52:22 · answer #4 · answered by zoote3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a euphemism for dying, but I like "Sleep's for the week, you can sleep when you're dead". If I had to pick one tho. Eh, I'm italian. "He's sleeping with the fishes"
2006-07-13 12:46:27 · answer #5 · answered by Frank 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
feeding the trees. going to the bury patch. turned into worm food. bit the big enchilada. taking a dirt nap...
2006-07-13 12:47:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Taking a dirt nap.
Kicking the oxygen habit.
2006-07-13 12:46:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wearing the wooden kimono.
2006-07-13 12:45:42 · answer #8 · answered by irisheyes 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
condition non-conducive to life, going into the fertilizer business, immortally challenged, moved into upper management
2006-07-13 12:45:14 · answer #9 · answered by Taila 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
pushing up daisies . Assumed room temperature!
2006-07-13 12:45:40 · answer #10 · answered by Retarded Dave 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋