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robbing the grave 

When a young person is "on the prowl" for an older person. Opposite from "robbing the cradle".
She was robbing the grave and he was robbing the cradle.

Slam to the grave 

To beat someone so hard that the person will be critically injured and probably dead.
Usage of slam to the grave:

A: You picked the wrong house fool! Leave or I'll slam you to the grave.
B: Shit I'm outta here.
Slam to the grave by WordWorld July 31, 2017

[Take it to the grave] 

1. Keeping a secret until you die and are buried.
Nelly: Aww man I got a huge secret to tell you but you can't tell anyone.

T.I.: Yeah man I'll take it to the grave.

kill from the grave 

when you are killed in combat and then some how you kill an opponent once dead. most of the time it is when u throw a grenade just before dieing
ghost died but got a kill from the grave.

I got one foot in the grave, and the other on a banana peel.

Something that a NY Mobster might tell a reporter when he knows that his time is limited. He's done some really outrageous shit to other gangsters, and as a result, he is a dead man. Like a moth caught on a hot light, he knows it's wrong, but the danger gives him such a charge that he really has ceased to care. A guy in this position would say this and really mean it.
"I got one foot in the grave, and the other on a banana peel." "We live this way, but we don't care."

one foot in the grave 

Description of a person who is elderly or very ill and presumably near death. Not particularly respectful, but usually used comically.

Also used with the addition of "one foot in the grave and the other one on a banana peel."
Petie's cat was 18 years old, and while he didn't want to admit it, Petie realized that Tabby had one foot in the grave and the other one on a banana peel.
one foot in the grave by TBea April 24, 2008