death

See:
  • (as) baleful as death
  • (as) certain as death and taxes
  • (as) pale as death
  • (as) still as death
  • (as) sure as death and taxes
  • (someone or something) is going to be the death of (one)
  • (someone or something) will be the death of (one)
  • a death blow
  • a fate worse than death
  • a living death
  • a matter of life and death
  • a matter of life or death
  • at death's door
  • at death's doorstep
  • badger to death
  • baleful as death
  • be a fate worse than death
  • be at death's door
  • be bored to death
  • be death on (something)
  • be done to death
  • be frightened to death
  • be in at the death
  • be in at the death/kill
  • be in at the kill
  • be put to death
  • be sick to death of (someone or something)
  • be snatched from the jaws of death
  • be snatched out of the jaws of death
  • be the death of
  • be the death of (one)
  • be the death of somebody
  • be thrilled to death
  • be tickled pink
  • be tickled to death
  • be tired to death of (something)
  • beat (something) to death
  • between life and death
  • bleed to death
  • blue screen of death
  • bore (one) to death
  • bore stiff
  • bore to death
  • bore to death/tears, to
  • bored silly
  • bored to death
  • brush with death
  • catch (one's) death (of cold)
  • catch cold
  • catch death
  • catch one's death (of a cold), to
  • catch one's death (of cold)
  • catch your death
  • Cowards die many times before their death
  • cowards die many times before their death(s)
  • dance with death
  • deal a death blow
  • death and taxes
  • death and taxes, (certain as)
  • death and taxes, certain as
  • death blow
  • death by spell check
  • death cap
  • death is the great leveler
  • death knell
  • death on
  • death on (someone or something)
  • death on someone/something
  • death on something
  • death spiral
  • death toll
  • death trap
  • death warmed up
  • death wish
  • death's door, at/near
  • dice with death
  • die a death
  • die a natural death
  • die a/the death
  • do (something) to death
  • do something to death
  • do the hard yards
  • fate worse than death
  • fate worse than death, a
  • feel like death
  • feel like death warmed over
  • feel like death warmed up
  • fight to death
  • fight to the death
  • flog (something) to death
  • flog something to death
  • flog to death
  • freeze to death
  • frighten (one) to death
  • frighten to death
  • frightened to death
  • Give a beggar a horse, and he'll ride it to death.
  • Give me liberty, or give me death!
  • hang on like grim death
  • hang on to (someone or something) like grim death
  • hang on/hold on like grim death
  • have a death wish
  • hold on to (someone or something) like grim death
  • in at the death
  • in at the death/finish
  • kiss of death
  • kiss of death, a/the
  • lie at death's door
  • life after death
  • life and/or death
  • life-and-death
  • life-or-death
  • like death warmed over
  • like death warmed over/up, to feel/look
  • like death warmed up
  • like grim death
  • living death
  • look like death
  • look like death warmed over
  • look like death warmed up
  • love (someone or something) to death
  • matter of life and death
  • matter of life and death, a
  • meet (one's) death
  • meet death
  • nickel and dime (one) to death
  • nickel and dime someone to death
  • nothing is certain but death and taxes
  • on pain of death
  • out of the jaws of death
  • pale as a ghost
  • plunge to (one's) death
  • pounce at the death
  • put (one) to death
  • put somebody to death
  • put to death
  • scare (one) to death
  • scare out of one's wits
  • scared silly/stiff/to death, to be
  • scared to death
  • send (one) to (one's) death
  • send to death
  • sick and tired
  • sick to death
  • sick to death of (someone or something)
  • sick to death of someone or something
  • sign (one's) own death warrant
  • sign (someone's) death warrant
  • sign one's own death warrant
  • sign own death warrant
  • sign someone's death warrant
  • sign your own death warrant
  • snatch (one) out of the jaws of death
  • snatch (someone) from the jaws of death
  • snatch out of the jaws of death
  • sound the death knell
  • sound the death knell of something
  • still as death
  • struggle to the death
  • sudden death
  • take (one's) death (of cold)
  • the jaws of (something)
  • the jaws of death, defeat, etc.
  • the kiss of death
  • the wages of sin (is death)
  • The wages of sin is death
  • there is a remedy for everything except death
  • thrill (one) to death
  • thrill to pieces
  • thrilled to death
  • tickle (one) to death
  • tickle to death
  • tickled pink
  • tickled pink/to death, to be
  • tickled to death
  • till death do us part
  • till death us do part
  • tired out
  • tired to death
  • tired to death of (something)
  • to death
  • to the death
  • toll the death knell
  • under pain of death
  • until death us do part
  • valley of death
  • valley of the shadow of death
  • will be the death of
  • work (one or oneself) to death
  • work yourself/somebody to death
  • worried sick
  • yes (one) to death
  • you'll be the death of me
  • you'll catch your death
  • you'll catch your death (of cold)
  • you'll catch your death of cold
References in classic literature
"Hast thou not seen Death go past with my little child?" said the mother.
I am freezing to death; I shall become a lump of ice!"
Andersens Fairy Tales
One beareth only the unfortunate!" And they also are preachers of death.
Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
As he fell asleep he had still been thinking of the subject that now always occupied his mind- about life and death, and chiefly about death.
And that fear was the fear of death. It stood behind the door.
War and Peace
Goe whither Fate and inclination strong Leads thee, I shall not lag behinde, nor erre The way, thou leading, such a sent I draw Of carnage, prey innumerable, and taste The savour of Death from all things there that live: Nor shall I to the work thou enterprisest Be wanting, but afford thee equal aid.
Paradise Lost
For Death who puts to sleep both young and old Hales my young life, And beckons me to Acheron's dark fold, An unwed wife.
Antigone
"Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him." Behind the coffins and the skeletons that stay the vulgar mind lies something so immense that all that is great in us responds to it.
Howards End
He had recognized him!...He wanted to dart forward, forgetting Christine; but the black domino, who also seemed a prey to some strange excitement, caught him by the arm and dragged him from the crush-room, far from the mad crowd through which Red Death was stalking.
Phantom of the Opera
He appeared, it is true, to feel the whole awfulness of the Judge's death, yet had received the fact into his mind without any mixture of surprise, but as an event preordained, happening inevitably, and so fitting itself into past occurrences that it could almost have been prophesied.
House Of Seven Gables
Anytus proposes death as the penalty: and what counter- proposition shall he make?
Apology
"Why should we not spend the last three hours remaining to us of life, like those ancient Romans, who when condemned by Nero, their emperor and heir, sat down at a table covered with flowers, and gently glided into death, amid the perfume of heliotropes and roses?" Morrel smiled.
Count of Monte Cristo
The Abyssins have three different ways of putting a criminal to death: one way is to bury him to the neck, to lay a heap of brambles upon his head, and to cover the whole with a great stone; another is to beat him to death with cudgels; a third, and the most usual, is to stab him with their lances.
Voyage to Abyssinia
His thoughts were of the most various, but the end of all his thoughts was the same-- death. Death, the inevitable end of all, for the first time presented itself to him with irresistible force.
Anna Karenina