Timeline for is it idiomatic to say "She is going to the deathday party"?
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| Jul 29, 2022 at 8:17 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | If you’re a Harry Potter fan, you will of course be very familiar with the notion of a deathday party – there’s a fairly long scene in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets which describes the ghost Nearly Headless Nick’s deathday party. It is indeed sort of a celebration of their death: it’s a birthday party, but based on the day they died and became a ghost. But outside the Potterverse, I would understand it to just be a party on the day of someone’s death – not a ‘hurray, he’s still dead’ type of celebration. If it’s a joyous occasion, ‘deathday party’ is perfectly natural to me. | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 0:46 | comment | added | Tom | I found only 1 search result of "deathday meal" but I like that phrase "to go to the deathday meal for somebody" or "to go to the annual memorial for somebody" | |
| Feb 17, 2020 at 0:44 | vote | accept | Tom | ||
| Feb 16, 2020 at 17:15 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 4.0 |