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like death

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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