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.
noun
The act of mixing cards or mah-jong tiles so as to randomize them.
He made a real mess of the last shuffle.
The act of reordering anything, such as music tracks in a media player.
An instance of walking without lifting one's feet.
The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.
A rhythm commonly used in blues music, consisting of a series of triplet notes with the middle note missing, so that it sounds like a long note followed by a short note, and suggests a walker dragging one foot.
A dance move in which the foot is scuffed back and forth across the floor.
verb
To put in a random order.
Don't forget to shuffle the cards.
You shuffle, and I'll deal.
To change; modify the order of something.
But, rather than make a change up front, Hughes shuffled his defence for this match, replacing Carlos Salcido with Baird, in a move which few would have predicted would prove decisive.
To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
He shuffled out of the room.
I shuffled my feet in embarrassment.
To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
I myself, […] hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle.
To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
Your life, good master, / Must shuffle for itself.