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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.
See also: death, fate, worse

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Behind her lay a fate worse than death, at the hands of human beings.
The sight of the girl being borne away in the prahu of the Malay rajah to a fate worse than death, had roused in him both keen regret and savage rage, but it was the life of ease that he was losing that concerned him most.
With a fate worse than death staring her in the face, and with the knowledge that I should probably die defending her within the hour, I was still happier than I had been for weeks--and all because I had seen again for a few brief minutes the figure of a little heathen maiden.
 
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