shuffle off this mortal coil

present singular third person shuffles off this mortal coil · participle present shuffling off this mortal coil · participle past shuffled off this mortal coil · past shuffled off this mortal coil · alternative shuffle off one's mortal coil

1. euphemisticidiomaticTo die; to divest oneself of one's mortal body.

   But when you and I shuffle off this mortal coil, formal remembrances won’t be the only way we are remembered.

   2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist

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

   c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 265, column 2

   Handsome, with a Freud-like beard and piercing eyes, it was also said that he had perfected the death stare. Whenever he required the skeleton of some exotic beast to compare with his fossil bones, he would visit Basel Zoo and stare at the appropriate animal, which would soon thereafter shuffle off its mortal coil.

   2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 81

   “I would like to understand before I croak. I would like to understand, and then I’m perfectly fine to shuffle off my mortal coil.”

   2026, Sebastian Mallaby, “Introduction”, in The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence, Penguin, →ISBN

   Synonyms: assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord