a very bad or unpleasant experience.

She felt that having to move to a small town was a fate worse than death.

Usage notes: often used in a humorous way to describe something that is not too serious:

Spending a day with my aunt would be a fate worse than death.

• not know where to put
• not know where to put yourself
• not know where to turn
• not know whether are coming or going
• not know whether to laugh or cry
• not know whether you are coming or going
• not know which way to turn
• not let the grass grow under feet
• not let the grass grow under your feet
• not lift a finger
• not long for this world
• not look a gift horse in the mouth
• not lose sleep over
• not lose sleep over something
• not mince words
• not mince your words
• not miss a beat
• not miss a trick
• not move a muscle
• not much to look at
• Not on your life!
• Not on your nelly!
• not out of the woods
• not pull any punches
• not put a foot wrong