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单词 shuffle off this mortal coil
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shuffle off this mortal coil

chiefly humorous Die.Someone wrote me that he's 105 years old and ought to be shuffling off this mortal coil....
  • At the ripe old age of 78 and after creating an Irish institution now famous the world over, Arthur Guinness shuffled off this mortal coil.
  • Now, some of this might be because the poor lass has shuffled off this mortal coil, but none of these guys tends to throw around superlatives for people who don't deserve it.
From Shakespeare's Hamlet (iii. i. 67)
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