food for worms

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food for worms

A dead person. You better drive more carefully, unless you want to be food for worms!

food for worms

a dead person.

See also: food, Worms

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I'll probably now decide to be food for worms as nature intended.

How green can you go?

Like the covering of an old book, its contents torn out and stript of its lettering and gilding, lies here, food for worms.

A way with words: the Franklin Court Printing Office in Philadelphia highlights Benjamin Franklin's early career

Food for Worms, But the Work shall not be lost, For it will as he believ'd, appear once more In a new and more elegant Edition Corrected and improved By the Author.

Legacies of 1809: four Mississippi counties celebrate 200 years

Pick of the bunch has to be The Tumbleweed Pet Poo Converter, a worm farm that turns dog droppings into food for worms, whose'castings' can then be converted into fertiliser for your garden.

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I may be food for worms, tomorrow's humus, but for now I have made myself known and necessary.

Ash Wednesday: February 6, 2008

Logs used as landscape elements provide habitat and food for worms and other little critters, places for humans to sit and cat petting perches.