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

Nancy says he will "die" to achieve his goals at Celtic and believes results under him have not reflected performances.

From BBC

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

That was the path he had chosen: to die to all who knew him, and to all he knew—his devoted wife, his bumbling, nearsighted son, his palatial home, his vast fortune.

From Literature

“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