bleed to death

bleed to death

To die due to losing excessive amounts of blood. If we don't get this patient into surgery right away, he is going to bleed to death from internal injuries.
See also: bleed, death
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bleed to death

to die from the loss of blood. If something isn't done, he will bleed to death. I cut my finger. I hope I don't bleed to death.
See also: bleed, death
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • bleed out
  • bleed the lizard
  • lizard
  • bleed like a (stuck) pig
  • bleed like a pig
  • twice over
  • tax-and-spend
  • heavily
  • up the yin-yang
References in classic literature
``I would I knew what the Rabbi Jacob Ben Tudela would opine on it,'' replied Isaac; ``nevertheless, the good youth must not bleed to death. Let Seth and Reuben bear him to Ashby.''
Have by some surgeon, Shylock, on your charge, To stop his wounds, lest he do bleed to death. SHYLOCK.
Else, supposing him to be still alive, she foresaw that he must bleed to death before he could be landed at his inn, which was the nearest place for succour.
Tel Aviv /PNN/ A Jewish rabbi urged Israeli occupation forces to "finish off" wounded Palestinians who carry out resistance attacks and to refrain from providing them with medical treatment or first aid, leaving them to bleed to death. The right-wing Rabbi Baruch Marzel, who lives in an illegal settlement in Hebron, claims that "since the ...
After learning of their nomination, the officers heaped praise on the man's mum who managed to stay calm even when it looked like her son was going to bleed to death.
Forces then opened fire toward the sound of the explosion, shooting the youth and leaving him to bleed to death for almost four hours, Israeli sources alleged.
What is disgusting and reprehensible in this instance is that after Abu Jaisha was shot, he was left to bleed to death on a street while Palestinian emergency workers and ambulances were purposely kept away from the scene by the Israelis.
A CITY banker shot in the leg in a station car park told last night how he thought he was going to bleed to death.
TWO "despicable" sisters were jailed for manslaughter after one stabbed her boyfriend and the other let him bleed to death.
FARMERS across Scotland have been baffled by a mystery disease that causes young calves to bleed to death.
But Michael Powers QC, a former assistant coroner, said the cuts would not have caused him to bleed to death and that there was only a normal dose of co-proxamol present in Dr Kelly's body.
But Michael Powers QC, a former assistant coroner, said the cuts would not have caused him to bleed to death, and that there was only a nor-r mal dose of co-proxamol present in Dr Kelly's body.
Five's American import began with CSI boss Gil Grissom rushing to the crime scene just in time for Warwick to bleed to death in his arms.
We also know that about 7,000 men bleed to death every year because of a ruptured aneurysm that can be prevented by a simple operation and that pounds 25m a year would save at least 3,000 lives.
"I'd rather [that a woman have a] fever and shiver than bleed to death," he says.