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crossing the Styx

crossing the Styx is the present participle and gerund of cross the Styx.

Meaning of cross the Styx

Verb

cross the Styx (third-person singular simple present crosses the Styx, present participle crossing the Styx, simple past and past participle crossed the Styx)

  1. (humorous, intransitive, literary) To die.
    • The following day Nigel apologized for what he described as an unhappy domestic interlude. “Marietta tells me that you are going to come over every day until . . . I cross the Styx.” I heard him chuckle. “Jolly nice of you, old boy.”2009, Peter Wright, Triumphs and Tragedies: Twenty-five Aspects of the Life of a Liverpool Sailor, Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 172
    Synonyms:
    assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord, bite the big one, bite the biscuit

Questions about crossing the Styx

What is crossing the Styx the present participle and gerund of?
Crossing the Styx is the present participle and gerund of cross the Styx.

Words near crossing the Styx in the dictionary

  1. crossing the aisle
  2. crossing the floor
  3. crossing the line
  4. crossing the river
  5. crossing the streams
  6. crossing the Styx
  7. crossing the t's and dotting the i's
  8. crossing the Thames
  9. crossing the Tiber
  10. crossing the wires
  11. crossing time

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