dead tired
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James said his main focus is on “going out until I’m dead tired.”
From Los Angeles Times
I’m dead tired, I’m exhausted.
From Los Angeles Times
"I'm off to bed. Had another cosmetic surgery, trying to look differently, and I am dead tired and my head hurts," Marsalek wrote to Roussev on Telegram in February 2022.
From BBC
“He was dead tired and he was still talking. ... He definitely brings fear out of people because like they see he’s confident. And he backs up everything he says.”
From Los Angeles Times
“Why would you walk away from the best job, in the world, that you absolutely love? Come Sunday, kick off? Trust me. Sunday at one o’clock or four o’clock, it still excites me. And I get on that plane at night, dead tired, thinking, ‘You just worked a football game.’”
From Los Angeles Times
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