die and go to heaven

verb

To have an extremely pleasant experience.

“It's like I died and went to heaven!”

Meanings

verbdie and go to heaven (third-person singular simple present dies and goes to heaven, present participle dying and going to heaven, simple past died and went to heaven, past participle died and gone to heaven)

present singular third person dies and goes to heaven · participle present dying and going to heaven · past died and went to heaven · participle past died and gone to heaven

  1. To have an extremely pleasant experience.

    It's like I died and went to heaven!

    3 more examples

    I must've died and gone to heaven / Cos it was quarter past eleven / On a Saturday in 1999

    1996 November 25, Jay Kay, Derrick McKenzie, “Cosmic Girl”, performed by Jamiroquai

    Vegetarians will think they've died and gone to heaven, especially in Kits, the former center of hippiedom.

    1999, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Vancouver, page 57

    His gaze dropped to her slender ankles then to her shoes. Yowzah! She wore white-strapped sandals with at least four-inch heels. Now he knew he was dreaming—or he'd died and gone to heaven.

    2005, Micqui Miller, Sweet Caroline
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