cross the Styx
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cross the Styx
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From Greek mythology, after Styx, a river that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld, over which the ferryman Charon transports the souls of the newly dead. See Styx on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
verb crosses the Styx · crossing the Styx · crossed the Styx
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To die.
The following day Nigel apologized for what he described as an unhappy domestic interlude. “Marietta tells me that you are going to come over every day until . . . I cross the Styx.” I heard him chuckle. “Jolly nice of you, old boy.”
Similar: 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, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy the farm
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title = {cross the Styx},
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