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Idiom: Take to the grave
Money is great, but you can’t take it with you.
That’s why funerals are so expensive.
A funeral is like a tip jar at an airport Starbucks.
You dump all your spare change in it because you can’t use it where you’re going.
That’s a little mortician humour for you.
If you can’t take your money with you, what can you take to the grave?
Well, secrets, of course.
When you take something to the grave, you never reveal your secrets as long as you are alive.
Even on your deathbed, you remain tight-lipped, which must be very hard to do when gasping out your last.
OK, I know this humour is a bit off-colour and may have left a bad taste in your mouth.
I get carried away sometimes, which is precisely what happens when you die.
Nobody walks to their own funeral.
You may take your secrets to the grave, but we all get carried away at the end.
So, what secrets are you going to take to the grave?
I know you can’t tell me, but it was a rhetorical question anyway.
We’ve all done things of which we are not proud.
I’m sure there are a lot of little old ladies out there who have been shoplifting chocolates from the local grocery stores for years.
We’ll never know because they’ll take the truth to the grave.
Then, of course, the unfaithful men are afraid of their wives.
As we learned a few days ago, hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
These guys take their secrets to the grave because revealing all would mean premature death.
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