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Pass the river

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To die. euphemistic, idiomatic

    "To the beautiful memory of Kenneth Grahame, husband of Elspeth and father of Alastair, who passed the river on the 6th of July, 1932, leaving childhood and literature through him the more blest for all time."

Etymology

Allusion to the crossing of the river Styx, the boundary between life and Hades, in Classical Greek mythology.

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