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100 English Euphemisms
- Thread starter Leongsam
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KNN can't differentiate between slang vs euphemism vs idiom KNN KNN
We are often embarrassed to say someone has died, so instead use euphemisms such as those below. The meaning of some of these is clear...others downright baffling.
- Assumed room temperature (popular among mortuary technicians);
- Bit the big one;
- Brown bread (Cockney rhyming slang);
- Carked it, (or karked);
- Fallen off the perch;
- Hopped the twig;
- Been taken from us;
- Gone somewhere better;
- He's now with (name of closest deceased loved one);
- It was his time to go;
- Not hanging around anymore;
- Threw a double-six;
- Kicked the bucket;
- Put out to pasture;
- He/she bought the farm (US military]);
- Gone West;
- Curtains;
- Faced the final curtain;
- It was tickets for him;
- Walked through the Pearly Gates;
- Gone to a better place;
- Checked out;
- Gone to the great ...in the sky;
- Turned up his toes;
- Snuffed it;
- It was a 'take out' in a body bag;
- Croaked;
- Pushing up the daisies;
- Feeding the worms;
- Feeding the fishes;
- Sleeping with the fishes;
- Dead as a Dodo;
- Dead as a doornail;
- Dead as a doormouse;
- Passed over;
- Passed on;
- Having his final sleep;
- The Late ...;
- Lost (as in 'We 'lost' my father);
- Not dead but 'gone before';
- Drawn his last breath;
- Departed this life;
- Shuffled off this mortal coil;
- End one’s days;
- Peg out/To peg;
- Given up the ghost;
- Gone to see his maker;
- Met his maker;
- Never woke up;
- Keeping the angels company;
- Singing with the angels;
- Popped his clogs;
- Been deleted.
- Up lorry (Singapore)
- Hand in IC (Singapore)
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I thought this was British? Hugh Laurie's character used this term a lot in Blackadder goes forth. I had to look it up to find out what he meant
What is meant by the phrase "bought the farm"?
Question: What is meant by the phrase “bought the farm”?
Answer: It comes from a 1950s-era Air Force term meaning “to crash” or “to be killed in action,” and refers to the desire of many wartime pilots to stop flying, return home, buy a farm, and live peaceably ever after. When they died as a result of a collision or were shot down, their buddies would shake their heads and mutter, “Well, I guess he bought the farm.”
https://www.almanac.com/fact/what-is-meant-by-the-phrase-bought
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