to death

Idioms  

1. To an extreme or intolerable degree, as in I am tired to death of these fund-raising phone calls, or That movie just thrilled me to death. This hyperbolic phrase is used as an intensifier. Also see sick and tired; tired out. [c. 1300]

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to death

The father of a student who was stabbed to death in the Nottingham attacks has criticised a move by Nottinghamshire Police to promote the senior officer who led the investigation.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

"We wanted to understand whether resistance to death is inherited by the descendants of death-resistant cells that survived the initial irradiation," Arama says.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

But, oh, how easy the curse’s persistence makes it to retread all those familiar plot beats, the same ones that have been removed from their context and posted to death for the last decade.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

Supreme Court precedent, that would be better than putting her to death under Tennessee’s current protocol.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

Despite having been torn up by glass and nearly squeezed to death, he was smiling...until he saw the chariot.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda