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03 May 2025, 4:33 pm

I like the one about flowers. "Pushing up daisies" is probably the nearest British equivalent. People will say anything to avoid saying "dead":
Shuffled off the mortal coil.
Gone to meet the maker.
Asleep in Jesus.
Taken.
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Gone for a Burton.
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03 May 2025, 4:36 pm

You're making me laugh now you


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03 May 2025, 4:37 pm

^^ Sleeping with the fishes.



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03 May 2025, 4:38 pm

I've also heard the phrase 'passing to one's reward'.

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03 May 2025, 4:40 pm

I've not heard that one before

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Oh my cod
Who makes these up


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03 May 2025, 4:41 pm

I've heard "bought it"

But I think that was from the war time


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03 May 2025, 4:44 pm

I wonder whether that's a shortened form of 'He (or she) bought the farm'.

That's another phrase that hasn't been mentioned so far.


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03 May 2025, 4:48 pm

Oh yeah it must be
Nice one DeepHour


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03 May 2025, 4:53 pm

babybird wrote:
I've heard "bought it"

But I think that was from the war time

Yes I think so. The kid next door had a load of boys' comics with war stories in them, and the soldiers were always saying that when one of them had been blown up by the Germans. Doesn't mean it didn't start somewhere else though.

"Gone for a Burton" was Royal Air Force slang for when somebody got shot down. Nobody knows how it started. There was a theory that it was about Burton's Ales, but some awkward sod pointed out that the phrase was popular before Burton's started business.

I love euphemisms for death. Looks like everybody else does too. 8)



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03 May 2025, 4:59 pm

Euphemisms for sex are also funny :D What a Polish man does when he does what you call spanking the monkey is literally, beating or punching the horse :twisted:


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03 May 2025, 5:02 pm

Oh yeah "Gone for a Burton"

My stepdad used to say that every time the telly broke


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03 May 2025, 5:03 pm

ToughDiamond wrote:
I like the one about flowers. "Pushing up daisies" is probably the nearest British equivalent. People will say anything to avoid saying "dead":
Shuffled off the mortal coil.
Gone to meet the maker.
Asleep in Jesus.
Taken.
Passed.
Gone for a Burton.
.....and many more.


Pining for fjords.


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03 May 2025, 5:12 pm

Where does that one come from


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03 May 2025, 5:14 pm

babybird wrote:
Where does that one come from



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03 May 2025, 6:20 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
ToughDiamond wrote:
I like the one about flowers. "Pushing up daisies" is probably the nearest British equivalent. People will say anything to avoid saying "dead":
Shuffled off the mortal coil.
Gone to meet the maker.
Asleep in Jesus.
Taken.
Passed.
Gone for a Burton.
.....and many more.


Pining for fjords.

Ah, but that means "not dead." Like Talk Talk said about my wireless router when they refused to send me a new one and tried to get me to take a screwdriver to the phone socket to rule out possible user-related causes for it not working. I sacked them for that. They didn't actually tell me it was pining for the fjords, but it was otherwise just like the dead parrot sketch, as I explained on their Facebook page to put other users off them.



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03 May 2025, 6:23 pm

Irulan wrote:
Euphemisms for sex are also funny :D What a Polish man does when he does what you call spanking the monkey is literally, beating or punching the horse :twisted:

If I knew how to set up a trigger warning I might add a few good ones to that.