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shuffle off this mortal coil

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

Usage examples of "shuffle off this mortal coil".

The rest was simple pragmatism: even though baby Jesus had no hope for eternal life, odds were he wasn't going to shuffle off this mortal coil tomorrow or next year, either.

I shall live out my life and, if actuarial tables are to be believed, I should shuffle off this mortal coil some time in the 1920s or 1930s.

I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.