worm food
Body in ground
Worm food is slang for a dead body or corpse—someone buried in the ground where worms consume the remains.
The phrase usually appears in dark humor or threats: Keep talking and you'll be worm food.
To become worm food is to die: We'll all be worm food eventually.
Cessation of life
- graveSerious and worrying
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- coffinBurial container for remains
- corpseDeceased human body
cemetery · funeral · casket · tombstone · shroud · interment · crypt · sepulcher
Gradual organic breakdown
- rotOrganic breakdown process
- compostDecayed organic fertilizer
- humusDecayed organic soil matter
- decomposeBreak into simpler parts
biodegrade · nutrients · soil · earthworms · vermicompost · detritus · microorganisms · bacteria
Predetermined course of events
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- mortalityState of eventual death
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
unavoidable · certain · predetermined · impending · memento mori · human condition · no escape
Joking about grim subjects
- dark comedyComedy treating grim topics lightly
- macabreDisturbing, death-obsessed
- sardonicGrimly mocking
- black humorComedy from darkness
euphemism · irreverent · graveyard humor · whistling past the graveyard
death
Cessation of life
corpse · cemetery · funeral · casket · tombstone · shroud · interment · crypt · sepulcher · mausoleum
decay
Gradual organic breakdown
decompose · biodegrade · nutrients · soil · earthworms · vermicompost · detritus · microorganisms · bacteria · fungi
fate
Predetermined course of events
inescapable · unavoidable · certain · predetermined · impending · memento mori · human condition · no escape
gallows humor
Joking about grim subjects
- dark comedyComedy treating grim topics lightly
- macabreDisturbing, death-obsessed
- sardonicGrimly mocking
black humor · euphemism · irreverent · graveyard humor · whistling past the graveyard
- death idiomsdead end, dead serious, dead wrong, dead tired, dead weight
- vermiculturevermicompost, nightcrawlers, egg capsule, castings, cocoon
- deathdead, deceased, corpse, mortality, demise
worm foodalive
Having current existence
living · breathing · alive and kicking · above ground · vital
worm foodin the pink
Excellent health state
hale and hearty · fit as a fiddle · full of life · thriving · flourishing