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to death

if someone is worried or bored to death, they are very worried or bored Why didn't you ring and say you were going to be late? I was worried to death. You must be bored to death, sitting here all day with nothing to do.

See catch death !, dice with death, die a death, sign own death warrant

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to death

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]

See also: death

to death

To an intolerable degree; extremely: worried to death.

See also: death