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Idioms and Phrases

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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Oh, he suffocated Greg Kinnear, er, Tom Lockwood to death?

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Paul Butler, 53, of Stangray Avenue, Plymouth, previously pleaded guilty to stabbing to death 48-year-old university lecturer Claire Chick.

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On April 2, Austin Metcalf, 17, was stabbed to death at a track meet in Frisco, a suburb of Dallas.

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It also noted that Anthony asked if Metcalf, who bled to death, was "going to be OK?"

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They put him to death by hanging him on a tree,

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