cross the Styxとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

cross the Styx (三人称単数 現在形 crosses the Styx, 現在分詞 crossing the Styx, 過去形および過去分詞形 crossed the Styx)

1. (intransitive, literary or humorous) To die.
   • 2009, Peter Wright, Triumphs and Tragedies: Twenty-five Aspects of the Life of a Liverpool Sailor, Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 172:

     The following day Nigel apologized for what he described as an unhappy domestic interlude. “Marietta tells me that you are going to come over every day until . . . I cross the Styx.” I heard him chuckle. “Jolly nice of you, old boy.”

   • 2020 March 28, Catherine Holmes, “Review: Mantel’s trilogy finale gives us the end of Cromwell’s action-packed life”, in The Post and Courier‎^[1]:

     We know what’s sprouting, but Mantel’s trilogy lets us imagine that it might all have been different. Did Anne Boleyn’s neck have to meet the sword of an executioner brought from Calais to do her in? Did Thomas Cromwell have to cross the Styx himself four years later?

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:die