Idiom
rest his soul
Meaning
Used parenthetically to mark the referent as being deceased
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My grandfather, rest his soul, loved to garden.”
“She often remembers her mother, rest her soul, whenever she bakes this bread.”
“The old carpenter, rest his soul, left behind a workshop filled with tools that no one else knows how to use.”
Examples
simple
“My grandfather, rest his soul, loved to garden.”
contextual
“She often remembers her mother, rest her soul, whenever she bakes this bread.”
complex
“The old carpenter, rest his soul, left behind a workshop filled with tools that no one else knows how to use.”
Origin
From the earlier religious formula God rest his soul, in which God is invoked to grant the deceased person eternal repose.
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