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pass over	To die.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pass the river	To die.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
passer au fil de l'épée	To put to the sword.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
passer de vie à trépas	to pass away, to die	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pay the rent	To provide enough income to afford a place to live	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
peg out	To die. [from 19th c.]	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
phone tag	A situation in which two individuals attempting to contact each other by telephone repeatedly do not get a live person and instead trade messages, such as by voice mail.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pop one's clogs	To die.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
practice what you preach	To practice what you preach means to do as you say. To live by example.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
qui porte épée porte paix	One sword keeps another in its scabbard; Si vis pacem, para bellum.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
qui sert à l'autel doit vivre de l'autel	Every man must live by his profession.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
qui veut voyager loin ménage sa monture	Who wishes to go far spares his horse; He who wishes to live long avoids excess.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
random number	A number allotted randomly using suitable generator (electronic machine or as simple "generator" as die).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
reach an early grave	To die young. To die before the age of 80.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
roof over one's head	Somewhere to live; shelter.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
run through	To impale a person with a blade, usually a sword.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ruri vivere, rusticari	to live in the country.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
s'accorder comme chien et chat	To live a cat and dog life.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
scrimp and save	To scrimp greatly; to economize; to live very frugally, particularly when saving for something.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
secum vivere	to live to oneself.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
see you in hell	A farewell which implies that the person addressed is about to die and be damned.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
shack up	To live together, especially of an unmarried couple.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
shady pines	Something said to an older person (usually your mother) to correct their bad behavior by threatening to take them to live in a retirement home.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
shuffle off this mortal coil	To die; to divest oneself of one's mortal body.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
si quid (humanitus) mihi accidat or acciderit	if anything should happen to me; if I die.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
si vita mihi suppeditat	if I live till then.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
si vita suppetit	if I live till then.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
slack off	To decrease in intensity; to ease off; to diminish; to die down.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
slip away	To die peacefully.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
strictis gladiis in hostem ferri	to throw oneself on the enemy with drawn sword.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
strike down	to kill someone or something, to cause to suddenly die	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
string up	To die by hanging.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
suck the kumara	To die.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
take the veil	To retire into a convent and live as a nun.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
take to heart	To take something seriously; to internalize or live according to something (e.g. advice.)	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
telle vie, telle fin	Men die as they live.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
to hell and back	To live through an extremely unpleasant, difficult, or painful experience.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
toddle off	To die	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
trailer park trash	Lower-class people who live in trailer parks.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
turn to dust	to die	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
two pennies to rub together	A minimal amount of money to live on; any money at all.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
un pot fêlé dure longtemps	A creaking door hangs long: Ailing folk live longest.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
virtutem pristinam retinere	to live as scrupulously moral a life as ever.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
virtutis perfectae perfecto munere fungi (Tusc. 1. 45. 109)	to live a perfect life.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vitam ad annum centesimum perducere	to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a hundred.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vitam beatam (miseram) degere	to live a happy (unhappy) life.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vitam in egestate degere	to live in poverty, destitution.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vitam solitariam agere	to live a lonely life.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vitam, aetatem (omnem aetatem, omne aetatis tempus) agere (honeste, ruri, in litteris), degere, traducere	to live (all) one's life (honourably, in the country, as a man of learning).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
vivere carne, piscibus, rapto (Liv. 7. 25)	to live on meat, fish, by plunder.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)

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