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Shuffle off this mortal coil

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To die; to divest oneself of one's mortal body. euphemistic, idiomatic

    "For in that ſleepe of death, what dreames may come, / When we haue ſhuffel'd off this mortall coile, / Muſt giue vs pawſe."

Etymology

From Hamlet by William Shakespeare, see mortal coil.

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