pay the debt of nature
English
Verb
- (euphemistic) To die.
- 1828, Henry Hunter, Sacred biography, or, The history of the patriarchs (volume 1, page 36)
- The venerable father of the human race had now himself paid the debt of nature.
- 1828, Henry Hunter, Sacred biography, or, The history of the patriarchs (volume 1, page 36)
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