Shaun of the Dead with his stepfather Philip, and his girlfriend Liz breaks up with him, unhappy they spend every evening at his local pub, the Winchester. After the break-up, Shaun drowns his sorrows there with his housemate and best friend Ed. At home, their housemate Pete, complaining of a bite wound from a mugger, berates Shaun to get his life together. By morning, a zombie apocalypse has overwhelmed London, but Shaun and Ed are slow to notice until they encounter two zombies in their garden and kill them with blows to the head. They form a plan to rescue Shaun's mother, Barbara, and
The quick and the dead (idiom) Book of Mormon (first published in 1830), refers to "...the Eternal Judge of both quick and dead". The use of the word "quick" in this context is an archaic one. Here, the word specifically means "living" or "alive" (a meaning still retained in the "quick" of the fingernails, and in the idiom quickening, as the moment in pregnancy when fetal movements are first felt). Another common phrase, "cut to the quick", literally means cut through the dead, unfeeling layers of the skin to the living, sensitive tissues below. Quicksilver, an old name for the liquid metal mercury, refers to the