Casual Conversation

"Virou estatística" "They are now statistics".

"Ir de base" "Going to the base". Reference to games where you respawn at a base.

"Ir de arrasta para cima" "Swiped up". No ideia why that exists but it's great

"Ir de submersível" "Went like a submersible" Reference to the billionaire submarine that imploded

All of the "ir de" ones can use "foi de" to say them in the past

Casual Geographic on YouTube uses tons of fun euphemisms. Things like getting taken off the census, or hooking up to God's wifi.

Left the port

"He's wearing a wooden boiler suit" is a Dutch one I like.

American Sign language has some of the best.

First

Second

I cant find a video of the one I Learned in college. Involves the fingers of one hand springing up suddenly from behind the other, like the legs of a dead spider.

Aged out of voting

Quit smoking

Kicked off

Left the plane of existence

Shuffled off this mortal coil

Exited the building

Please for the love of everything sacred dont say unalive

The Dead Parrot Sketch has a few of my faves

I like "kicked the bucket" or "gave up the the ghost". The latter I said recently and got mocked because they'd never heard it and apparently it's "not a real saying".

He bought the farm. The tragic backstory being that the man was farming on land he was still paying off a loan for and his life insurance pays for the farm for the widow (though that wasn't even always the case).

Brown bread: an instance of cockney rhyming slang for "dead". Difficult to use outside of the UK.

Mortally challenged: always good in a heavily moderated or corporate environment where every negative is somehow lexically spun into a positive, no matter how ludicrous.

One way ticket to Switzerland: hopefully a soon-to-be-outdated joke about taking advantage of their more liberal assisted dying laws.

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Medical people I know tell me that when they have to actually give the family the news they don't use euphemisms. No 'they passed,' or 'they are in a better place.' "They died." You have to be blunt with really shocking news.

"Reached the clearing at the end of the path" - Stephen King, "Dark Tower"

In the process of dying: "Circling the drain."

In our city (marathi) they say “He went off” and also in (Hindi) they say “He went through”

Å parkere tøflene - to park one's slippers.

"Beyond the veil", because it sounds poetic.

Pushing up daisies has always been a favourite.

Mine is from an old movie, The Last Starfighter. A human and an alien are discussing an attack on their base and the people killed in the attack.

Alex Rogan : You mean they're dead?

Grig : [scoffs] Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.

Dirt nap

Sometimes I like to tell people that my family has "two of those subterranean breed cats"

It doesn't really translate well, but in Swedish "trilla av pinn" (slang/casual phrasing roughly meaning fallen off the branch/stick/bar).

I think it originates from farming circumstances where hens are sitting on bars in henhouses, laying eggs until they, well...

Dropping the spoon. :)

I like "teats up" and "cark it". 😄

Got rid of his grey hair and dyed.

"The spark of his life is smothered in shite" - A Knight's Tale

Went to a farm up state

Slapped the ass.