

{"id":11153,"date":"2021-03-02T10:15:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T10:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/?p=11153"},"modified":"2022-09-18T15:24:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T15:24:33","slug":"rest-easy-meaning-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/rest-easy-meaning-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rest Easy&#8221; \u2013 Here&#8217;s When and How to Use this Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has an expiration date. It&rsquo;s not possible to live forever, so it&rsquo;s important to recognize and prepare for the fact that you won&rsquo;t always be around.<\/p>\n<p>While this may seem a little somber or morbid, it&rsquo;s just a natural fact of life.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout your life, they spend a lot of time working to survive and grow.<\/p>\n<p>After a long day, you may covet a good night&rsquo;s sleep, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/top-of-the-morning-to-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">but when you wake up in the morning<\/a><\/strong>, you&rsquo;ll have to start the routine over again.<\/p>\n<p>However, when that final day comes, you won&rsquo;t wake up again, so you&rsquo;ll finally have a chance to &ldquo;rest easy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Still, this phrase doesn&rsquo;t always have to be used when someone still isn&rsquo;t around.<\/p>\n<p>You probably have to deal with deadlines, timetables, and other stressful expectations in your day-to-day life.<\/p>\n<p>When the stressful times temporarily pass, you can &ldquo;rest easy&rdquo; until the next big challenge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the Meaning of &ldquo;Rest Easy&rdquo;?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>First off, this phrase can be used to express respect for the dead. When somebody passes away, they are in a better place, and they can finally &ldquo;rest easy.&rdquo; In life, people often &ldquo;rest easy&rdquo; after a stressful event or when they find out that a situation is better than they had previously expected. Hence, when you tell somebody to &ldquo;rest easy,&rdquo; you&rsquo;re either telling someone who has passed away to &ldquo;rest in peace,&rdquo; or you&rsquo;re telling somebody that they no longer need to worry about something.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>When and How to Use the Expression &ldquo;Rest Easy&rdquo;<\/h2>\n<p>While this phrase is somewhat informal, it wouldn&rsquo;t be considered offensive or crass to use it in certain professional situations.<\/p>\n<p>If your department were to avoid some sort of catastrophe, then it would be fine to tell your coworkers to &ldquo;rest easy.&rdquo; This phrase can be used similarly in less formal environments.<\/p>\n<p>In the following example, Yuri is visiting his grandfather&rsquo;s casket and paying his respects at a funeral.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-note\" style=\"border-color:#e5e54c;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\"><div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"background-color:#FFFF66;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\">\n<p><strong>Yuri:<\/strong> I know that you had a hard life, and I&rsquo;m going to miss you. I hope that you&rsquo;re in a better place. Rest easy, Gramps. In the next example, a few friends are planning a trip to Wales, and they are worried about some of the details.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Max:<\/strong> Uh-oh! Our flight leaves tomorrow, but I&rsquo;m on the country&rsquo;s travel website now, and it looks like we need special visas to visit that country. These visas take several days to process, so I think that we will have to cancel our flights.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-note\" style=\"border-color:#e5e54c;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\"><div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"background-color:#FFFF66;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\">\n<p><strong>Stella:<\/strong> Really? That&rsquo;s so sad. Our vacation is ruined!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arnelle:<\/strong> Chill out! Residents of our country can enter Wales and stay for 90 days without any special visa. You two can rest easy. We don&rsquo;t have to cancel our vacation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Max:<\/strong> Thank goodness! I must have looked at the wrong information.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>In both examples, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/thank-you-for-the-clarification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this phrase is used in more serious situations<\/a><\/strong>. However, this phrase can also be used humorously in any context where you can make a joke about death or any stressful situation.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, you should make sure to only joke about such things in the right context. Otherwise, you could offend someone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Origin of the Phrase &ldquo;Rest Easy&rdquo;<\/h2>\n<p>The term &ldquo;rest in peace&rdquo; became common on Christian tombstones at some point in the 1700s. Before &ldquo;rest in peace&rdquo; entered <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/common-comma-mistakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">common use in English<\/a><\/strong>, similar terms had been used in other languages since the 400s.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, &ldquo;rest easy&rdquo; and some other phrases developed from this term and entered the modern vernacular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has an expiration date. It&rsquo;s not possible to live forever, so it&rsquo;s important to recognize and prepare for the fact that you won&rsquo;t always be around. While this may seem a little somber or morbid, it&rsquo;s just a natural fact of life. Throughout your life, they spend a lot of time working to survive &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable-in-feed":false,"article-schema-type":"Article","disable-critical-css":false,"_convertkit_action_broadcast_export":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1117],"tags":[400,401],"class_list":["post-11153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-vocabulary","tag-rest-easy","tag-rest-easy-meaning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11153"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11161,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11153\/revisions\/11161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}