shuffle off this mortal coil
To die; to divest oneself of one's mortal body.
For in that ſleepe of death, what dreames may come, / When we haue ſhuffel'd off this mortall coile, / Muſt giue vs pawſe.
adj
Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […]
into the plain Disgorged at length, the dead and the alive, In one dread mass, were parted, and the stain Of blood from mortal steel fell o’er the fields like rain.
Punishable by death.
Fatally vulnerable.
Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.
Of or relating to the time of death.
Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour.
noun
A human; someone susceptible to death.
Her wisdom was beyond that of a mere mortal.
Lord what fools these mortals be!
adv
Mortally; enough to cause death.
It's mortal cold out there.