dirt nap
Six feet under
Dirt nap is slang for death or being dead—the "nap" you take in the dirt of a grave.
The term is darkly humorous, treating death as sleep: One more mistake and you'll be taking a dirt nap.
Often appears in threats or tough talk about killing someone.
- rest in peaceEpitaph blessing for deceased
- pushing up daisiesEuphemism for being dead
- deathCessation of life
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- passingMoving by or temporary
gallows humor · gone · expire · demise · lights out · checked out · coffin · euphemism · passed away · dearly departed · grave · cadaver · deceased · bit the dust · cemetery · funeral · corpse · tombstone
- death idiomsdead end, dead serious, dead wrong, dead tired, dead weight