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Phrase(s): Death is the great leveler.
Prov. Death makes everyone equal, because it does not spare anyone, not even the wealthy, famous, or talented. (Also the cliché: the great leveler, death.) • The wealthy tycoon lived as though he were exempt from every law, but death is the great leveler and came to him the same as to everyone else. • We hoped that the brilliant pianist would entertain us with her music for many decades, but death, the great leveler, did not spare her.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs