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quick and the dead
quick and the dead
quick and the dead
The living and the dead, as in
The explosion was loud enough to wake the quick and the dead
. Although
quick
has been used for "living" since the 9th century a.d., it survives only in this idiom and in
cut to the quick
, and may be obsolescent.
See also:
and
,
dead
,
quick
Common Names:
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Usage
Macsen
-
Welsh
Sommer
-
English (Modern)
Sieger
-
Dutch, German
Shay (1)
SHAY
Irish
Kader (2)
-
Turkish
AssumpciÓ
-
Catalan
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