shuffle off this mortal coil
English
Etymology
From Hamlet by William Shakespeare.
Verb
shuffle off this mortal coil (third-person singular simple present shuffles off this mortal coil, present participle shuffling off this mortal coil, simple past and past participle shuffled off this mortal coil)
- (idiomatic) To die; to divest oneself of one's mortal body.
- "What dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause" —William Shakespeare, Hamlet