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cash in one's chips
vs
pass the river
cash in one's chips
verb
To die.
To discontinue an activity, accepting whatever gains or losses one has incurred; to give up.
pass the river
verb
To die.
How often have the words
cash in one's chips
and
pass the river
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)