Undertaker used in a sentence

Undertaker in a sentence as a noun

That’s like hiring an undertaker as your doctor.

> Is this guy an undertaker or a urologist?

Is this guy an undertaker or a urologist?

Their mere howdy-do was a lie, because _they_ didn't care how you did, except they were undertakers.

They should only be worn in the day if you are a waiter, doorman, undertaker, American etc.

You lied to the undertaker, and said your health was failing--a wholly commendable lie, since it cost you nothing and pleased the other man.

So a more literal translation would be an undertaker, not as someone who manages burials, but undertakes something.

Whereas optimizing for the second metric at all costs tends to only benefit the undertaker, investigative agencies, and the lawyers.

In 1891, the first electromechanical telephone exchange was invented by Almon Strowger, an undertaker.

And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now. Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, \ policeman, the webfoot cocklewomen and the tidy wives.

As a point of linguistic curiousity, would a more accurate literal translation be "one who undertakes", or perhaps "one who engages in", given the fairly specific meaning of "undertaker" in English?

I think that is a visceral example, showing that we can't trust the old cloak of anonymity to hide our trail, so it might not be a bad idea to, as Twain said, "live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.

A saying from an aquaintance who works as a public prosecutor in capital cases:"Generally it's preferable to discuss the limitations of self-defense with the prosecutor, than having the family discuss with the undertaker.

"We do not reckon our soldiers the most industrious set of people among us; yet when soldiers have been employed in some particular sorts of work, and liberally paid by the piece, their officers have frequently been obliged to stipulate with the undertaker, that they should not be allowed to earn above a certain sum every day, according to the rate at which they were paid.