shuffle off this mortal coil

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[edit] Verb

shuffle off this mortal coil

(idiomatic) To die; to divest oneself of one's mortal body.

[edit] Quotations

"What dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause" —William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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