death in the family

The day had been like a death in the family.

For some, it is like a death in the family.

It's never easy to talk about a death in the family.

I asked what would happen if there were a death in the family.

It would have meant, at the very least, a death in the family.

Sometimes a person may experience several deaths in the family close together.

Not a forest fire or death in the family, those are real events.

And that's exactly the way I felt about it: a death in the family.

She appears when there is to be a death in the family.

For what it's worth, I have just had a death in the family.

Its stopping would be like a death in the family.

This room had surely not been used since the last death in the family.

There have been quite a few deaths in the family the past five years.

"It was almost like a death in the family," he said.

They looked as though he'd just announced a death in the family, so he took the opportunity of saying more.

A serious injury, perhaps, or a death in the family.

When some television figures pass away, it's like a death in the family.

"After she left, you would have thought there was a death in the family.

A death in the family is harder when it happens so far away.

With a death in the family, everyone wants to know if they can bring a casserole.

"It's as though there was a death in the family."

Several of us had been faced with deaths in the family.

They took his loss as personal, often comparing it to a death in the family.

That's how you might deliver news of a death in the family or start an argument.

After a while, you started to hope that there had been a death in the family."