exchange this life for a better
- exchange this life for a better
to die
Another monumental aspiration:
After a long illness which she bore without a murmur exchanged this life for a better on the 23rd day of March, 1815. (Monument in Bath Abbey)
How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms.
R. W. Holder.
2014.
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