meet one's maker
English
Verb
meet one's maker (third-person singular simple present meets one's maker, present participle meeting one's maker, simple past and past participle met one's maker)
- (idiomatic, euphemistic) To die or to pass into the afterlife.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land that Time Forgot, ch. 4:
- He didn't die for a half-hour after that; nor did he speak again—aloud; but just a few seconds before he went to meet his Maker, his lips moved in a faint whisper.
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land that Time Forgot, ch. 4:
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:die
Translations
die, pass into the afterlife
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