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New York Slang for saying something is over. Join the choir invisible [14] To die Neutral From an 1867 poem by George Eliot. Referenced in the Monty Python Dead Parrot Sketch, also see Choir Invisible. Join the great majority [2] To die Euphemistic: First used by Edward Young, but the phrase 'the majority' is extremely old. Justifiable homicide ...
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach; The work praises the man. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch; There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream; There are none so blind as those who will not see – attributed variously to Edmund Burke or George Santayana; There are two sides to every question
As the mastermind behind Mickey Mouse and the entire Disney enterprise, his life’s work has inspired children and adults alike for decades. And when he passed away due to lung cancer in 1966 ...
In "What the Dead Men Say" (1964), by Philip K. Dick, after the main character has spoken ill of his recently deceased boss, his wife tells him "Nil nisi bonum", then explaining to her bamboozled husband that it comes from the classic cartoon "Bambi". It might be used to suggest the confusion of cultural references in this story's world set in ...
My dad was a closed-off man, but he expressed himself in little notes. Days after he died, I got a Valentine's Day card from him that made me rethink love. My dad died right before Valentine's Day.
The family of a man who died in a crash said he was the "most dignified man" they had ever met in a tribute to him. Jeffrey Holmes, who was in his 60s, died following a crash on the A47 in ...
The Japanese also built one-man "human torpedo" suicide submarines. However, suicide has been fairly common in warfare throughout history. Soldiers and civilians committed suicide to avoid capture and slavery (including the wave of German and Japanese suicides in the last days of World War II). Commanders committed suicide rather than accept ...
He died of a heart attack on Cavett's couch while New York Post columnist Pete Hamill was being interviewed. As he was talking to Hamill, he heard a loud snoring sound.