Allusion to the crossing of the riverStyx, the boundary between life andHades, in Classical Greek mythology.

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passtheriver (third-person singular simple presentpasses the river,present participlepassing the river,simple past and past participlepassed the river)

1. (idiomatic, euphemistic) Todie.
   • 1991,Anthony Hope, edited byHumphrey Carpenter and Mari Prichard,The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages216–219:

     To the beautiful memory of Kenneth Grahame, husband of Elspeth and father of Alastair, whopassed the river on the 6th of July, 1932, leaving childhood and literature through him the more blest for all time.

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