In allusion to the drinking usages formerly common at burials.
Death and marriage break term-day.
Death at ae door and heirship at the other.
Death comes in and speirs nae questions.
"Death does not blow a trumpet."—Danish.
Death defies the doctor.
Death pays a' scores.
Death's gude proof.
Deil be in the house that ye're beguiled in.
A compliment, meaning that a person is so shrewd that no less a person than his Satanic majesty can deceive him.