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a fate worse than death |
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a fate worse than death
a very bad or unpleasant experience She felt that having to move to a small town was a fate worse than death. Usage notes: often used in a humorous way to describe something that is not too serious: Spending a day with my aunt would be a fate worse than death. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Hostage to Death" (9781592122820) follows Legionnaire Bill Reilly, challenged by a renegade Berber chieftain to rescue a kidnapped American named Kay MacArthur, possibly from a fate worse than death, even though he knows that he may be plunging headlong into a deadly trap. The threat of not allowing any one or all of them not to watch their home theater with surround sound or any other television in the household for that matter is a fate worse than death for them most of the time and enough to get them to walk on the straight and narrow. With the aid of former SAS hero and fiance Eddie Chase - "a squat, balding, broken nosed" Yorkshireman, she has already discovered the lost island of Atlantis and the tomb of Hercules and saved the world from a fate worse than death on each occasion. |
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