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Kick the bucket: This is a humorous or colloquial way to say someone has died.
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Bite the dust: Similar to "kick the bucket," this idiom implies someone has died, often in a dramatic or sudden manner.
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Meet one's maker: To die and face judgment or the afterlife, often used euphemistically.
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Pushing up daisies: To be buried in a grave after death, with daisies growing on the grave.
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Cash in one's chips: To die or come to the end of one's life, often used in gambling contexts.
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Meet one's end: To reach the point of death or to die.
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Shuffle off this mortal coil: To die or pass away, often used in a poetic or dramatic context.
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Sleep with the fishes: To be dead, often in a violent or criminal context.
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Buy the farm: To die, often used in a humorous or euphemistic way.
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Take the last train: To die, often used to describe someone who has passed away.
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Cross over to the other side: To die and transition to the afterlife.
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Curtains for someone: To be the end of someone's life or the end of a situation, often used to imply death.
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To be six feet under: To be buried in a grave after death.
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Go to one's grave: To die and be buried, often used to describe someone who has died.
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Cash in one's checks: Similar to "cash in one's chips," this idiom implies someone has died.
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Feed the worms: To die and be buried, with the implication that one's body will decompose and become food for worms.
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Give up the ghost: To die or cease to function, often used in a euphemistic or humorous way.
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Go the way of all flesh: To die or experience death, often used in a philosophical context.
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Take a dirt nap: To die and be buried, often used colloquially or humorously.
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Turn up one's toes: To die, often used in a casual or humorous way.
