mine is kicking the bucket (for english) or looking at the radishes from below (in german)

those make me chuckle sometimes

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    Brown bread: an instance of cockney rhyming slang for “dead”. Difficult to use outside of the UK.

    Mortally challenged: always good in a heavily moderated or corporate environment where every negative is somehow lexically spun into a positive, no matter how ludicrous.

    One way ticket to Switzerland: hopefully a soon-to-be-outdated joke about taking advantage of their more liberal assisted dying laws.