more dead than alive

1. Physically, mentally, or emotionally exhausted. He looked more dead than alive by the time he finished the race. These divorce proceedings have me completely worn down and worn out—I feel more dead than alive at the moment.

2. Very unwell or in very poor condition. The poor child was more dead than alive when they finally found him.

more dead than alive

Fig. exhausted; in very bad condition; near death. (Almost always an exaggeration.) We arrived at the top of the mountain more dead than alive. The marathon runners stumbled one by one over the finish line, more dead than alive.

more dead than alive

Exhausted, in poor condition, as in By the time I got off that mountain I was more dead than alive. This idiom may be used either hyperbolically or literally. [c. 1900]

词组	more dead than alive
释义	more dead than alive more dead than alive 1. Physically, mentally, or emotionally exhausted. He looked more dead than alive by the time he finished the race. These divorce proceedings have me completely worn down and worn out—I feel more dead than alive at the moment. 2. Very unwell or in very poor condition. The poor child was more dead than alive when they finally found him. See also: alive, dead, more Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. more dead than alive Fig. exhausted; in very bad condition; near death. (Almost always an exaggeration.) We arrived at the top of the mountain more dead than alive. The marathon runners stumbled one by one over the finish line, more dead than alive. See also: alive, dead, more McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. more dead than alive Exhausted, in poor condition, as in By the time I got off that mountain I was more dead than alive. This idiom may be used either hyperbolically or literally. [c. 1900] See also: alive, dead, more The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. See also: be shot (one's) nerves are shot be not (oneself) not oneself not feeling (oneself) in a bad way heart of oak in bad shape detached from the (outside) world emotional affair References in classic literature In time my eyes gradually shut up; and, from seeming to hear the clergyman singing a drowsy song in the heat, I hear nothing, until I fall off the seat with a crash, and am taken out, more dead than alive, by Peggotty. David Copperfield
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