die and go to heaven

English

Verb

die and go to heaven (third-person singular simple present dies and goes to heaven, present participle dying and going to heaven, simple past died and went to heaven, past participle died and gone to heaven)

  1. (in metaphor and simile, not used alone) To have an extremely pleasant experience.
    It's like I died and went to heaven!
    • 1996 November 25, Jay Kay, Derrick McKenzie, “Cosmic Girl”, performed by Jamiroquai:
      I must've died and gone to heaven / Cos it was quarter past eleven / On a Saturday in 1999
    • 1999, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Vancouver‎[1], page 57:
      Vegetarians will think they've died and gone to heaven, especially in Kits, the former center of hippiedom.
    • 2005, Micqui Miller, Sweet Caroline:
      His gaze dropped to her slender ankles then to her shoes. Yowzah! She wore white-strapped sandals with at least four-inch heels. Now he knew he was dreaming—or he'd died and gone to heaven.
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