to wake the dead, loud enough

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Very loud, as in That band is loud enough to wake the dead. This hyperbolic expression dates from the mid-1800s.

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I called out several times, as loud as I could raise my voice, but all to no purpose.
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All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
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