great beyond

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the great beyond (plural not attested)

1. (idiomatic) the afterlife.
   • 1920 May, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 33, column 2:

     First his mother passed into the Great Beyond, and by the time the poignant misery of his loss had become a dull ache, his father had also solved the Great Riddle.