leave the building to

leave the building to
   die
   The building is your body where your soul resides while you are living:
    I could quietly die — or as Papa said, 'leave the building'. (Theroux, 1978)
   If you affect clichés, especially those with biblical antecedents, you are more likely to leave the land of the living:
    Let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be no more remembered. {Jeremiah)
   Americans may also be said to leave town.

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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