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that's someone's funeral

that's someone's funeral is the rare form of it's someone's funeral.

Meaning of it's someone's funeral

Phrase

it's someone's funeral

  1. (idiomatic, informal, ironic, sarcastic, sometimes) A person’s decisions or actions will result in negative consequences only for themselves.
    • He can make as many empty tubes and corrugations out of me as he likes. It's his funeral.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC

Questions about that's someone's funeral

What is that's someone's funeral the rare form of?
That's someone's funeral is the rare form of it's someone's funeral.

Words near that's someone's funeral in the dictionary

  1. that's news to me
  2. that's on period
  3. that's on periodt
  4. that's right
  5. that's saying something
  6. that's someone's funeral
  7. that's something
  8. that's that
  9. that's that on that
  10. that's the bunny
  11. that's the spirit

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