to die for

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to die for

Sl. important or desirable enough to die for; worth dying for. This chocolate cake is to die for! We had a beautiful room at the hotel and the service was to die for.

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If you had killed me, D'Artagnan, I should have had the good fortune to die for the royal house of France, and it would be an honor to die by your hand - you, its noblest and most loyal defender. The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context I had become no more, you know, than a poor dog ready to die for her. The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context Quite irrelevantly, still at the telephone and talking with her, he felt an overpowering desire to die for her, and visions of heroic sacrifice shaped and dissolved in his whirling brain. Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context			tits and ass tittle-tattle tizzy to a fault to a fine art to a great extent to a man to a tee to advantage to all intents and purposes to and fro to be on the safe side to be safe to be said for to be sneezed at to beat the band to begin with to boot to call own to cap it all to coin a phrase to credit to cut a long story short to date to death to die for To each his own to each own To err is human to face to go to have a hollow leg to have the hots for to heart's content to hell and gone to hell with to liking to make a long story short to my mind to no avail to put it another way to put it mildly to put too fine a point on it to say nothing of to say the least to shout about to some extent to speak of to that effect to the best of ability to the bitter end			To cut the knot To cut up To cut up shines To dam out To dance attendance To dance on a rope To dance the hay To dangle about To dare larks to date to date to date to date to date To deal by To deal in To deal in futures To deal with to death to death to death to death to death To declare off To declare one's self To Deliver To deny one's self To depart with To depress the pole To develop a curved surface on a plane to die for To die game To die in harness To die in the last ditch To die in the pain To dig down To dig from To dig in to dig in one's heels To dig out To din into To dine with Duke Humphrey To ding (anything) in one's ears To dip snuff To dip the colors To dip, the flag to disadvantage to disadvantage To dish out To dish up To dispense with To dispose of to do a job on To do a thing on the cross To do by

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