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Idioms  

1. Very effective against; also, very fond of. For example, “He is a wonderful fielder and sure death on bunts” (Christy Mathewson, Pitching, 1912), or The boss is death on tardiness, or She's death on the latest fashions. [Slang; early 1800s]

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Example Sentences

The one that had watched over me for eight decades: above the pallet in my hideaway in the Tatra Mountains, propped against my metal bunk bed in the Austrian displaced-persons camp, in the third-class berth of the USS Saratoga buffeting me across the Atlantic, in the Orchard Street rooming house where Adek and I first lived, in the first house I bought, and the last house I sold, and finally to my room here in the Antechamber of Death, on the wall next to my bed.

From Literature

“We are confronting death on a scale that we haven’t seen before because of the size of the baby-boom generation,” said Sen. Jamie Pedersen, majority leader of the Washington state senate, who shepherded the legislation.

From The Wall Street Journal

Macaulay Culkin, Michael Keaton, Dan Levy, Seth Rogen and other stars paid tribute to Catherine O’Hara after her death on Friday at age 71.

From Los Angeles Times

Macaulay Culkin, Pedro Pascal and other stars paid tribute to Catherine O’Hara after her death on Friday at age 71.

From Los Angeles Times

After the shooting death on Jan. 7 of Renee Good, Turtle Bread locked its front door during business hours, stationing a staffer there at all times to guard against ICE officers.

From The Wall Street Journal