Meaning of Weekend at Bernie's | Babel Free

Definitions

A situation in which someone pretends a dead person (or by extension, any entity) is still alive.

slang

Examples

“A Weekend at Bernie's acted out on the gray and black stage of frozen stone. Someone laughed and was immediately hushed by their own sense of shame.”

“All they had to show for themselves was a Weekend at Bernie's economy, with sunglasses and Hawaiian shirts on zombie companies supposed to give the impression of life and health”

“John McCain went so far as to say he would pull a Weekend at Bernie's if Chairman Greenspan died while McCain was president.”

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