to meet one's maker
3
9.0
- idiom
- Informal
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- As he faced his illness, he often thought about what it would be like to meet his maker.
- going to meet one's maker
Examples
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'Cause you're about to meet your maker.
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At one minute past midnight, Sam Cayhall will meet his maker.
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I am now ready to meet my maker.
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This boy's gonna meet his maker.
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For all we know, an innocent man is gonna meet his maker tonight.
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Maybe when I'm ready to meet my maker.
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The time has come for me to meet my maker and to repay him in kind for all that he's done.
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Son... if you're reading this, you know I've met my maker.
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The monk whose soul with heaven doth commune... and spends his days in pious contemplation... finds he will meet his maker all too soon.
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Edgecomb admits that for the first time in his life he is worried that he will go to hell, for when he meets his maker on judgment day he will not be able to explain why he allowed an innocent man—"one of God's true miracles"—to be executed.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
8
3.8
To die peacefully in a gentle, respectful way
Die because of an accident, violence, or disaster
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally combines 'meet' with 'one's maker' (maker = creator/God), so a learner could infer 'meeting one's creator' which conventionally implies death; however this inference depends on cultural/religious background and euphemistic usage rather than straightforward compositional semantics. Because understanding the idiomatic sense requires that extra cultural assumption, an average B1 learner who only knows the constituent words may not reliably derive 'to die' without prior exposure.
Etymology
Meet one's maker comes from the image of literally meeting your maker (the person who made you, usually God) after life ends. So it means 'to die', often with the idea that you will be judged for your actions.