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