to death

Idioms and Phrases

To an extreme or intolerable degree, as in I am tired to death of these fund-raising phone calls , or That movie just thrilled me to death . This hyperbolic phrase is used as an intensifier. Also see sick and tired ; tired out . [c. 1300]

Example Sentences

The Great Gatsby is one of those taught-to-death novels in America, due in part to its critique of the American Dream.

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And let us make up our minds to have no slow bleeding-to-death of our friendship.

From Project Gutenberg

We are worried to-death about her; and yet we are afraid to say one word in her hearing.

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Why, along whisked an auto, and the lady with the scared-to-death-hair looked at me.

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Do not have too much clay behind it, or it will have a bulging, overfed, or choked-to-death expression.

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Dutch courage ain't on the same shelf with real courage, but it's a durned sight better than scart-to-death in a rumpus.

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