look like death

Idioms  

1. Also,. Look or feel very ill or exhausted. For example, After two nights without sleep, Bill looked like death warmed over, or This cold makes me feel like death. [Colloquial; 1930s]

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Example Sentences

“If they had kept the government together, it was going to look like death by a thousand cuts,” Mr. Schanzer said.

From Washington Times

In the local tackle shop you fiddle with treble hooks, spinners and spoons, with barbs so sharp they look like Death’s own scythe.

From Washington Post

The Umbrella Academy, the comic book series about the adopted siblings and misfit heroes who inspired the Netflix show by the same name, is getting a spinoff: You Look Like Death.

From New York Times

Kidd made his own exit, his robes gathered around him and a look like death on his face.

From The Guardian

“Let me see you. You look like death.”

From Literature