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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.
See also: die

to die for  (informal)
if something is to die for, it is extremely good The weather's fantastic, the people are warm and friendly and the food is to die for. She's a beautiful-looking girl with a voice to die for.
See wither on the vine
See also: die

to die for (slang)
extremely good We had apple pie and it was to die for. He had a smile to die for.
See also: die


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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.
I had become no more, you know, than a poor dog ready to die for her.
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.
 
 
 
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