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.

faint dead away

Fig. to faint and fall unconscious. I almost fainted dead away. David will faint dead away when he reads this.

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References in classic literature ?

I don't know now what made you faint dead away when I opened it.

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?

Bob's Your Uncle

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.

New books

I did not get the chance to faint dead away when meeting someone called Dwayne,or Kyle, or Jaz.