like death



like death (warmed up)

  (British & Australian) also like death (warmed over) (American)
if you feel or look like death warmed up, you feel or look very ill I wish I'd got to bed earlier last night - I feel like death warmed up. The poor guy looked like death warmed over.
See also: death, like

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Elisabeteə-lee-zə-BETPortuguese
Burke[bə:k]
Patriciapə-TRISH-ə (English), pah-TREE-thyah (Spanish), pah-TREE-syah (Latin American Spanish), pah-TREE-tsee-ah (German)English, Spanish, German, Late Roman
SelwynSEL-winEnglish (Rare)
Reginarə-JEEN-ə (English), rə-GEEN-ə (English), rə-JIEN-ə (English), re-GEE-nah (German, Polish), re-JEE-nah (Italian), RE-gee-naw (Hungarian)English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Swedish, Norweg
EpaphrasEP-ə-fras (English)Biblical, Ancient Greek, Biblical Greek, Biblical Latin