Meaning of the corpse at every funeral | Babel Free

Definitions

Short for the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.

US, abbreviation, alt-of, rare

Examples

“She will pay less attention to mother, who through necessity, may begin to shed some of her dependency and her enjoyment of being the corpse at every funeral.”

“Ngeze is a good guy, he would say. Ngeze is a good-looking guy. "Hassan Ngeze wants to be the corpse at every funeral," those who knew him would add, laughing.”

“He stood with the pistol pressed to the back of his head and looked across the river toward his home in Central Texas where his two ancestors died violently. Alice Roosevelt Longworth said about her father Theodore's need for attention that he always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral. This time Jenkins got his wish.”

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