be gathered to (one's) fathers

euphemism To die. It's such a shame that Tom has been gathered to his fathers. When is his funeral?

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Gilead	-	Biblical
Fiorella	fyo-REL-lah	Italian
Shari	SHER-ee, SHAR-ee	English
Dodson	['dɔdsn]
Katariina	KAH-tah-ree:-nah (Finnish)	Finnish, Estonian
Manoj	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Odia, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada