faint dead away

faint dead away

To lose consciousness; to pass out. I don't know what happened, I just got dizzy all of a sudden and fainted dead away.
See also: away, dead, faint
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faint dead away

Fig. to faint and fall unconscious. I almost fainted dead away. David will faint dead away when he reads this.
See also: away, dead, faint
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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I don't know now what made you faint dead away when I opened it.
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We were both major, serious, intent raptor guys, delighted to try to discern the difference between, say, a kestrel and a jay, which are about the same size, although one can dismember a mouse in seconds and the other would faint dead away if dismemberment was on the syllabus.
We talked about love, but we used hawk words
Did he think I was going to faint dead away if this showed up on my plate unawares?
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And every time this Champollion--compiler of lists of famous dogs and old kings, reader of Arabic grammars, Persian dictionaries, Coptic, and Syriac, youngest-ever member of the Academie Delphinale--makes another linguistic breakthrough into the encrypted past of crocodiles and clitorectomies, he seems to faint dead away, at least once into an eight-day coma.
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I did not get the chance to faint dead away when meeting someone called Dwayne,or Kyle, or Jaz.
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