food for worms
Buried deceased person
A person who is dead or about to die.
The phrase evokes the body's decay in the grave, where worms consume the flesh.
It appears in philosophical reflections on mortality and in dark humor: We're all just food for worms in the end.
Shakespeare used it in *Henry IV*: "food for powder, food for worms."
- gonerOne beyond saving
- departedHaving left
- done forRuined beyond repair
- expireCease to be valid
- meet your makerDie and face God
reaper · off · mortal coil · decomposition · burial · dead and buried · gone to ground · transience · dust · ashes · grave · vermiculture · compost heap · castings · mortality · dispatch · ephemeral · death
food for wormsalive
Having current existence
living · breathing · alive and kicking · alive and well · quick
food for wormsfull of life
Energetic and animated
hale and hearty · alive and well · thriving · vigorous · vibrant
food for wormsfresh
Newly made, not stale
new · preserved · incorruptible · immortal · imperishable
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