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What does it mean?
The speaker suggests that the person is so unpopular that even a funeral director would cause people to stop dying.
In plain terms
He’s so disliked that even a funeral director would halt deaths.
What can you take from it?
Unpopularity can be extreme.

Where it applies

  • political satire
  • commentary on public figures

Putting it to work

  • use in comedic writing
  • political cartoons

Questions to consider

  • What does this say about public sentiment?
  • How effective is sarcasm in criticism?

Another view

The remark is hyperbolic and not meant literally.

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