big sleep

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Meaning: (idiomatic,euphemistic,almost always preceded bythe)Death.[from 1930s]Synonyms:dirt nap,sleep of the just;see alsoThesaurus:death1939,Raymond Chandler,The Big Sleep, Penguin, published2011, page250:What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping thebig sleep, you were not bothered by things like that.1967, “When the Music’s Over”, inStrange Days, performed by The Doors:Before I sink into thebig sleep/ I want to hear / The scream of the butterfly

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