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From the movie Weekend at Bernie's (1989), in which two men attempt to conceal the death of their boss by puppeteering his corpse.

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Weekend at Bernie's (plural not attested)

(slang, idiomatic) A situation in which someone pretends that a dead person (or by extension, any entity) is still alive.
- 2005 February 1, Nevada Barr, High Country, Penguin, →ISBN:
  
  A Weekend at Bernie's acted out on the gray and black stage of frozen stone. Someone laughed and was immediately hushed by their own sense of shame.
- 2009 February 9, Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
  
  All they had to show for themselves was a Weekend at Bernie's economy, with sunglasses and Hawaiian shirts on zombie companies supposed to give the impression of life and health
- 2018, Robert X. Browning, The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Purdue University Press, →ISBN, page 47:
  
  John McCain went so far as to say he would pull a Weekend at Bernie's if Chairman Greenspan died while McCain was president.

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Weekend at Bernie's (third-person singular simple present Weekend at Bernie's, present participle Weekend at Bernie's-ing, simple past and past participle Weekend at Bernie's-ed or Weekend at Bernie's'd)

(slang) To move a dead body, or otherwise a nonresponsive person (such as due to illness or intoxication), while pretending that the person is alive and conscious.
- 2016 May 19, Goldy Moldavsky, Kill the Boy Band, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 234:
  
  I could only imagine that Rupert L. was standing Rupert P. upright with one hand and waving Rupert P.'s arm with the other. (And seeing the pictures later, I was totally right.) Rupert P. had been Weekend at Bernie's-ed after all.
- 2017 May 9, Dave Anthony, Gareth Reynolds, The United States of Absurdity: Untold Stories from American History, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 110:
  
  After being Weekend at Bernie's'd by his closest doctors, Washington wasn't feeling right. He told the three doctors that he felt like his life was over and to let him go.
- 2020 December 7, Carrie Pulkinen, Santa Got Run Over by a Vampire: A Paranormal Romantic Comedy, Carrie Pulkinen:
  
  Jane supported his weight on one side, while Ethan propped up the other, and they practically had to Weekend at Bernie's him down the alley between the ice cream parlor and the praline shop.
- 2024 February 1, Ashley Winstead, Fool Me Once: A simmering, sizzling second-chance romcom from TikTok sensation Ashley Winstead, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
  
  To get her home and past the eagle-eyed scrutiny of our mother the morning after, I'd had to Weekend at Bernie's her, waving her arms and nodding her head at questions
- 2024 July 30, Amelia Diane Coombs, All Alone with You, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 129:
  
  Mostly we talk about Realm of the Ravager or Marianne or the crackpot theory that our principal is being Weekend at Bernie's-d. Obviously it's nonsense. But hilarious nonsense.

・Weekend at Bernie's
・poisoned sake
・yoshishige
・S. Kor.
・ſcepter
・barrel chest
・Dakuzi
・pancake day
・Zhushan
・oral region

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