the corpse at every funeral

English

Phrase

the corpse at every funeral

  1. (US, rare) Short for the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral.
    • 1973, Ratibor-Ray M. Jurjevich, Direct Psychotherapy: Assertion-structured Therapy, University of Miami Press, →ISBN, page 289:
      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.
    • 2005, Dina Temple-Raston, Justice on the Grass: Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes and a Nation's Quest for Redemption, Free Press, →ISBN, page 39:
      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.
    • 2020, Michael Vinson, Bluffing Texas Style: The Arsons, Forgeries, and High-Stakes Poker Capers of Rare Book Dealer Johnny Jenkins, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 184:
      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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