turn your face to the wall
- turn your face to the wall
to die
Not from the reversal of a picture of a disgraced person but from the privacy sought by the dying:
Sahib turns his face to the wall and all is up with him. (P. Scott, 1977)
How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms.
R. W. Holder.
2014.
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