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fate worse than death, a
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A highly undesirable occurrence, a misfortune, as in Dean thinks driving daily during rush hour is a fate worse than death . Formerly applied quite seriously to a woman's loss of virginity, this idiom today is used hyperbolically and far more loosely. [1600s]Advertisement
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