КНИГИ НА АНГЛИЙСКИЙ ЯЗЫКЕ, ИМЕЮЩЕЕ ОТНОШЕНИЕ К СЛОВУ «GO TO MEET ONE'S MAKER»
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... draw one's last breath, meet one's end, meet one's death, lay down one's life,
be no more, perish, be lost, go the way of the flesh, go the way of all flesh, go to
glory, go to one's last resting place, go to meet one's maker, cross the great
divide, ...
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German/English Dictionary of Idioms
Reise: die/seine letzte Reise antreten (müssen) path 0d. euphem veraltend
selten ' 1. to enter on one's last journey, to (have to) go to meet one's maker, 2. to
give up the ghost 1. Martha, es ist zu Ende — diese Sache ist unheilbar. Noch ein
...
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Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
... go to meet one's maker, cross the great divide, slip away; informal give up the
ghost, kick the bucket, croak, buy it, turn up one's toes, cash in one's chips, bite
the big one, check out, buy the farm; archaic depart this life. antonyms live,
survive.
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Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language
Somewhat more poetic are the euphemisms go the way of all flesh and go to the
happy hunting ground. The latter is supposedly borrowed from Native American
religious mythology; Christian counterparts are go to meet one's maker, go to a ...
Keith Allan, Kate Burridge, 2006
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Englesko-srpski Frazeološki Rečnik: L-Z
(to) bite the dust to meet one's maker; to go to meet one's maker predati Bogu
duSu; otUi Bogu na istinu x "The Frost Programme" added nothing to our
knowledge of the death penalty, despite having a Mr. Don Ree, who had seen
many a man ...
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The pragmatics of reference
An idiom like go to meet one's maker really involves two different kinds of
conventions: one whereby the word maker can be used to refer to God, and the
other whereby we can refer to death metaphorically by invoking a relation
between the ...
Geoffrey Nunberg, Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1978
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The Penguin guide
to synonyms and related words
bite the dust depart die with one's boots on expire go to meet one's Maker kick
the bucket pass away pass on pass over perish Die is the simplest verb in this
group, the most straightforward and direct way of saying stop living, that is, ...
Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa, Eugene Ehrlich, 1996
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Choose the right word: a modern guide
to synonyms
Pass away, pass on, and pass over all are like depart in their implication of
moving to an afterlife, while go to meet one's Maker is even more explicit in its
designation of the terminal point of the soul's journey. Bite the dust and kick the
bucket ...
Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa, 1987
Pass away, pass on, and pass over all are like depart in their implication of
moving to an afterlife, while go to meet one's Maker is even more explicit in its
designation of the terminal point of the soul's journey. Bite the dust and kick the
bucket ...
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American Slang Dictionary and Thesaurus
... go to meet one's maker, join the choir invisible (be careful with this, because,
while originating in a poem by George Eliot in 1 867, it was used in the Monty
Python "Dead Parrot" sketch in 1 969— "joined the bleedin' choir invisible"— and
...
