Brewer's: Long Home

He has gone to his long home. He is dead. The “long home” means the grave. The French equivalent is “Aller dans une maison ou l'on demeurera toujours.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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