to death

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to death

if someone is worried or bored to death, they are very worried or bored. Why didn't you ring and say you were going to be late? I was worried to death. You must be bored to death, sitting here all day with nothing to do.

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At once she seized hold of two beautiful flowers close by, with each hand, and cried out to Death, "I will tear all thy flowers off, for I am in despair. Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, Hans Christian View in context They have put him to death in order to escape the necessity of giving an account of their lives. Apology by Plato View in context There is nothing more unjust than the vulgar opinion, by which physicians are misrepresented, as friends to death. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context More results

References in classic literature

At once she seized hold of two beautiful flowers close by, with each hand, and cried out to Death, "I will tear all thy flowers off, for I am in despair.

Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, Hans Christian View in context

They have put him to death in order to escape the necessity of giving an account of their lives.

Apology by Plato View in context

There is nothing more unjust than the vulgar opinion, by which physicians are misrepresented, as friends to death.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

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