{"id":72958,"date":"2019-12-03T06:25:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72958"},"modified":"2019-12-03T06:25:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:25:12","slug":"its-your-funeral-english-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/its-your-funeral-english-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Your Funeral | English Idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The expression <strong>it\u2019s your funeral<\/strong> is used to mean that one has to face the consequences of one\u2019s stupid actions. It also implies the speaker\u2019s lack of sympathy and in extreme cases contempt for another\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have heard that it is a dangerous place to go skiing. But if you insist on doing that, I won\u2019t stop you. <strong>It\u2019s your funeral<\/strong>. (= You will have to face the consequences of your stupid action.)<br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cI\u2019m going to tell him what I really think of him.\u201d \u201cGo ahead. <strong>It\u2019s your funeral.\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cI\u2019m going to try my luck in gambling.\u201d \u201c<strong>It\u2019s your funeral.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The expression <strong>it\u2019s not my funeral<\/strong> is used to mean that I will not have to bear the consequences of someone else\u2019s actions. This expression can be used with other pronouns (e.g. their, her, his etc.) as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cI\u2019m going to quit my job.\u201d \u201cYou may. <strong>It\u2019s not my funeral<\/strong>.\u201d (= Your quitting the job will not affect me at all.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>So you are going to make that presentation without any preparation. Go ahead. <strong>It\u2019s your funeral.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>So you are going to drop out of school. It\u2019s your funeral.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Share |<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expression it\u2019s your funeral is used to mean that one has to face the consequences of one\u2019s stupid actions. It also implies the speaker\u2019s lack of sympathy and in extreme cases contempt for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[393,1932,1931],"class_list":["post-72958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-english-idioms","tag-its-not-my-funeral","tag-its-your-funeral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72959,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72958\/revisions\/72959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}