Definition
To die.
In Context
- "His uncle passed on last year."
- "A very fine woman, Martha’s mother. She passed on—let’s see—sixteen months ago, next June. No, fifteen months ago. […] She was a very fine old lady, and I was glad to do what I could."
Also Said As
- assume room temperature
- auger in
- be called home
- be gathered to one's fathers
- be like the the One
- be no more
- be with Jesus
- be with the Lord
- bite the big one
- bite the biscuit
- bite the dust
- buy the farm
- buy it
- cark it
- cash in
- cash in one's chips
- check out
- close one's eyes for the last time
- code
- conk out
- croak
- cross over
- cross rainbow bridge
- cross the Great Divide
- cross the Styx
- darken
- decease
- decompose
- dematerialize
- depart
- disincarnate
- draw one's last breath
- drop off the hooks
- exit
- expire
- flatline
- forfare
- give one's all
- give up the ghost
- go for a burton
- go gentle into that good night
- go out
- go over to the majority
- go the way of all flesh
- go the way of the dinosaurs
- go the way of the dodo
- go the way of the dodo bird
- go to glory
- go to one's reward
- go west
- hand in one's checks
- hand in one's dinner pail
- hop the twig
- join the choir invisible
- keel over
- kick the bucket
- kick off
- knock off
- liquidate
- lose my life for Jesus Christ
- lose the number of one's mess
- meet one's doom
- meet one's end
- meet one's maker
- pass
- pass away
- pass in one's checks
- pass in one's marble
- pass on
- pass over
- pass the river
- pay nature's debt
- pay the debt of nature
- peg out
- perish
- pop off
- pop one's clogs
- shuffle off this mortal coil
- sink
- sleep with one's fathers
- slip away
- snuff it
- succumb
- take a dirt nap
- turn up one's toes
- yield up the ghost