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be the death of
Idioms and Phrases
Cause the death of something or someone, as in This comedian is so funny, he'll be the death of me . Although this phrase can be used literally, meaning “to kill someone or something,” it has also been used hyperbolically (as in the example) since the late 1500s. Shakespeare used it in 1 Henry IV (2:1): “Since the price of oats rose, it was the death of him.”Example Sentences
Moore never considered that “Long Bright River,” which ended up on Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2020 list, would become a series when writing — that idea, she says, would be the “death of my fiction.”
She’s saying this could be the death of democracy.
This is an open wound which is bleeding profusely and if not addressed, could be the death of the patient.
And in that moment, I realized that perhaps half of the nation’s voting population is grieving what they perceive to be the death of their country.
Today should be the death of those naïve beliefs and fictions.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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