Definition
To die; to divest oneself of one's mortal body.
Origins
From Hamlet by William Shakespeare, see mortal coil.
In Context
- "For in that ſleepe of death, what dreames may come, / When we haue ſhuffel'd off this mortall coile, / Muſt giue vs pawſe."
- "But when you and I shuffle off this mortal coil, formal remembrances won’t be the only way we are remembered."
- "Handsome, with a Freud-like beard and piercing eyes, it was also said that he had perfected the death stare. Whenever he required the skeleton of some exotic beast to compare with his fossil bones, he would visit Basel Zoo and stare at the appropriate animal, which would soon thereafter shuffle off its mortal coil."
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