go over to the majority

Referring to the fact that most of the people who have ever been born are now dead.

go over to the majority (third-person singular simple present goes over to the majority, present participle going over to the majority, simple past went over to the majority, past participle gone over to the majority)

1. (dated, euphemistic, idiomatic) To die.

• join the majority

• “majority”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.