to death

Idioms  

1. 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]

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Example Sentences

Prosecutors had demanded that the 65-year-old be sentenced to death – which, in a country that has not carried out an execution since 1997, would have amounted to a life sentence.

From BBC

Unlike Babis, Klempir -- a former singer -- has admitted to collaborating with the StB in the 1980s, saying in a recent podcast that he had signed up after the StB "scared me to death".

From Barron's

An Austrian climber has been found guilty of gross negligent manslaughter after his girlfriend froze to death on Austria's highest mountain last year.

From BBC

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ list of demands—unveiled in early February, shortly after Alex Pretti was shot to death by federal agents in Minneapolis—ranges from banning agents from wearing masks to outlawing racial profiling.

From Slate

More than a year after a 33-year-old woman froze to death on Austria's highest mountain, her boyfriend goes on trial on Thursday accused of gross negligent manslaughter.

From BBC