cross the Styx
Enter the underworld
To cross the Styx is to die.
In Greek mythology, the Styx was the river separating the living world from the underworld; the dead crossed it by ferry to reach the afterlife.
The phrase is literary and somewhat archaic: He crossed the Styx before his time.
Sometimes used with dark humor about someone's demise.
- buy the farmExpire, in slang
- meet one's makerEuphemism for dying
- deceaseEnd of life
- bite the dustFail or perish utterly
- shuffle off this mortal coilTo expire permanently
Charon · memento mori · Hades · funeral rites · Persephone · Tartarus · Elysium · liminality · Lethe · Cerberus · burial · mourning · eternal rest · cremation · Underworld · passage · one-way trip · tomb
cross the Styxbe born
Begin living
come into the world · return to life · rise from the dead · come back from the dead · come back to life
cross the Styxreturn to life
Regain existence after death
live on · survive · recover · pull through · live to tell the tale
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