paying nature's debt

Verb

pay nature's debt (third-person singular simple present pays nature's debt, present participle paying nature's debt, simple past and past participle paid nature's debt)

1. Synonym of pay the debt of nature (“to die”).
   • […] and that a younger famished dog should by this man at Mr. Knott's expense be acquired and held in reserve, against the day when the first famished dog should die, and that then again another famished dog should in the same way be procured and held in readiness, against the inevitable hour when...1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   pay the debt of nature