come back from the dead
come back from the dead
1. To become reanimated after death. If you don't do exactly what I want at my funeral, I'll come back from the dead and harass you all!
2. To reappear or regain popularity after a period of absence or decline. I haven't seen her in years, and now she's suddenly come back from the dead, so she must want something. I bought bell-bottoms because '70s fashions are coming back from the dead.
See also: back, come, dead
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
come back from the dead
orrise from the dead
If someone or something comes back from the dead or rises from the dead, they become active or successful again after a period of being inactive or unsuccessful. I could not believe I had done it. I had come back from the dead and my career had survived the ultimate test. After all, this was a company that, by all appearances, had risen from the dead. Note: You can also say that someone raises something from the dead when they make it active or successful again after a period of being inactive or unsuccessful. The company has been working on the scheme to raise this inner-city area from the dead since 1982.
See also: back, come, dead
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
- back from the dead
- from the dead
- come to life
- come alive
- come back to haunt (one)
- come back to haunt one
- zombie
- zombies
- beset
- beset with