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kill or cure
Idioms and Phrases
Either remedy a disease or kill the patient, as in The copy chief did not like her headline for the drug, “Kill or Cure.” This expression dates from the mid-1700s, when it was already being used half-jokingly.Example Sentences
A 2017 review of past scientific studies, titled “Cold water immersion: kill or cure”, found a bounty of evidence dating back to the 16th century regarding the potential health implications of cold-water immersion.
He took to leaving his paintings outdoors through the brutal Norwegian winters—to “kill or cure” them, he said.
Kill or cure “Voters are sick of me.”
Ulster Unionist Party leader Mike Nesbitt said Sinn Féin's continual denial of the IRA's existence would "kill or cure" devolution in Northern Ireland.
“We’se goin’ inside out dis weather, kill or cure.”
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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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