die to

Idioms  

1. Also, be dying to. Long greatly to do something, as in I'm dying to go to Alaska. [c. 1700] Also see die for.

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Example Sentences

In the fourth episode, for example, she learned that the hivemind can’t lie, but individuals will nearly die to prevent people like her from pulling truths from them that endanger their biological imperative to assimilate the immune.

From Salon

"No child should ever have to die to make changes but unfortunately I think that is the way everything seems to happen in the world," he told the BBC.

From BBC

“Mayors always tell me they would die to have one of these companies, and we have dozens and dozens,” says Daniel Lurie, San Francisco’s first-term mayor, rattling off buzzy startups like OpenAI and Anthropic.

From The Wall Street Journal

He told me people in Gaza are so desperate that they will their elderly relatives to die to spare them further suffering.

From BBC

But his willingness to die to end slavery led to the first marching song of the United States Army in the Civil War: “John Brown’s Body.”

From Slate