Euphemisms for death for you to check out

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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.

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