funeral

be (someone's) funeral

A (usually humorous) threat indicating that if someone does or doesn't do something, it will bring about negative consequences. OK, fine, don't do what mom said. It's your funeral! If Billy goes in my room when I'm not here, it'll be his funeral.
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closed-casket funeral

A funeral service at which the coffin is closed. I know you want to have a closed-casket funeral for Aunt Mona, but her friends may want to see her one last time when they come to say goodbye. I'm definitely having a closed-casket funeral—seeing the corpse at a funeral service is freaky!
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dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

proverb When you dream that someone has died, it is often followed by the news that they are getting married. A: "Did you hear that Bill is getting married?" B: "Wow, I just recently dreamed that he had died! It really is true that you dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage."
See also: and, dream, funeral, hear, marriage, of

dream of a funeral and you hear of a wedding

proverb When you dream that someone has died, it is often followed by the news that they are getting married. A: "Did you hear that Bill is getting married?" B: "Wow, I just recently dreamed that he had died! It really is true that you dream of a funeral and you hear of a wedding."
See also: and, dream, funeral, hear, of, wedding

it's (one's) funeral

A (usually humorous) threat indicating that if one does or doesn't do something, it will bring about negative consequences. OK, fine, don't do what Mom said. It's your funeral! If Billy goes in my room when I'm not here, it's his funeral.
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you'd be late for your own funeral

Said humorously to emphasize the fact that someone is always late or unpunctual. A: "Sorry, Sarah, I'm going to be about 15 minutes late." B: "Sheesh. You'd be late for your own funeral!" Rory Thompson, class started over an hour ago! You'd be late for your own funeral, young man!
See also: funeral, late, own

you'd be late to your own funeral

Said humorously to emphasize the fact that someone is always late or unpunctual. A: "Sorry, Sarah, I'm going to be about 15 minutes late." B: "Sheesh. You'd be late to your own funeral!" Rory Thompson, class started over an hour ago! You'd be late to your own funeral, young man!
See also: funeral, late, own

you'll be late for your own funeral

Said humorously to emphasize the fact that someone is always late or unpunctual. A: "Sorry, Sarah, I'm going to be about 15 minutes late." B: "Sheesh. You'll be late for your own funeral!" Rory Thompson, class started over an hour ago! You'll be late for your own funeral, young man!
See also: funeral, late, own

you'll be late to your own funeral

Said humorously to emphasize the fact that someone is always late or unpunctual. A: "Sorry, Sarah, I'm going to be about 15 minutes late." B: "Sheesh. You'll be late to your own funeral!" Rory Thompson, class started over an hour ago! You'll be late to your own funeral, young man!
See also: funeral, late, own
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage.

 and Dream of a funeral and you hear of a wedding.
Prov. If you dream that a person has died, you will learn that person is to be married. Alan: I had a dream last night that my sister was killed. Jane: Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage.
See also: and, dream, funeral, hear, marriage, of

It's your funeral.

Fig. If that is what you are going to do, you will have to endure the dire consequences. Tom: I'm going to call in sick and go to the ball game instead of to work today. Mary: Go ahead. It's your funeral. Bill: I'm going to go into the boss and tell what I really think of him. Sue: It's your funeral.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

it's your funeral

Also, it's or it's not his or her or my or our or their funeral . One must take the consequences of one's destructive or foolish actions. This expression is used to show one's contempt or lack of sympathy for another's actions. For example, Suppose they do get pulled over for taking a joy ride-It's their funeral, or I don't care whether you quit your job-it's not my funeral. This hyperbolic term implies that an action is so bad it will result in death. [Slang; mid-1800s]
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

it's your funeral

If you say it's your funeral to someone, you mean that if they suffer bad consequences from something they are planning to do, you will not have any sympathy for them. Have it your own way. You'll be sorry. It's your funeral. My cab driver shrugged his shoulders as if to say, "It's your funeral."
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Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

it's (or that's) someone's funeral

used to warn someone that an unwise act or decision is their own responsibility. informal
1996 Amitav Ghosh The Calcutta Chromosome I'll turn a few pages for you; but remember, it was you who asked. It's your funeral.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

it’s ˈyour funeral

(informal) used to tell somebody that they, and nobody else, will have to deal with the unpleasant results of their own actions: I think you’re making a big mistake, but if you don’t want to listen to me that’s fine — it’s your funeral.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

It’s your funeral!

exclam. If you do it, you will suffer all the consequences! Go if you want. It’s your funeral!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • be (someone's) funeral
  • it's someone's funeral
  • screw (someone)/that
  • screw him, you, that, etc.
  • stuff (someone)/that!
  • stuff him, that, etc.
  • stuff you
  • IRL
  • look daggers at, to
  • if looks could kill...
References in classic literature
"Well, don't mix up talk about funerals with talk about weddings," said Felicity.
The Golden Road
But for her visitors Dorothea too might have been shut up in the library, and would not have witnessed this scene of old Featherstone's funeral, which, aloof as it seemed to be from the tenor of her life, always afterwards came back to her at the touch of certain sensitive points in memory, just as the vision of St.
"This funeral seems to me the most dismal thing I ever saw.
The funeral was ended now, and the churchyard was being cleared.
Middlemarch
When the spectral procession approached the altar, each couple separated, and slowly diverged, till, in the centre, appeared a form, that had been worthily ushered in with all this gloomy pomp, the death knell, and the funeral. It was the bridegroom in his shroud!
And therefore I have bidden these funeral friends, and bespoken the sexton's deepest knell, and am come, in my shroud, to wed you, as with a burial service, that we may join our hands at the door of the sepulchre, and enter it together."
The train of withered mourners, the hoary bridegroom in his shroud, the pale features of the aged bride, and the death-bell tolling through the whole, till its deep voice overpowered the marriage words, all marked the funeral of earthly hopes.
From Twice Told Tales
They began to discuss the people who attended the funeral. Shops had been closed for it, and the churchwarden took out of his pocket the notice which had been printed: Owing to the funeral of Mrs.
She always said that twelve funerals gave her a new dress."
Of Human Bondage
Then he weaves along again, perfectly ca'm, and goes to dropping in his funeral orgies again every now and then, just like he done before.
So, you see, funeral orgies is an open er public funeral."
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
She would have preferred to have discussed the details of the funeral -- the splendid white velvet casket Mr.
Anne of The Island
So things passed until, the day after the funeral, and about three o'clock of a bitter, foggy, frosty afternoon, I was standing at the door for a moment, full of sad thoughts about my father, when I saw someone drawing slowly near along the road.
Treasure Island
Charles had been kind in undertaking the funeral arrangements and in telling him to eat his breakfast, but the boy as he grew up was a little dictatorial, and assumed the post of chairman too readily.
"Or coming down to the funeral at all--" echoed Dolly.
Howards End