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Previously commented out def is OK since it's not literal; "Tickled to death" is a separate idiom meaning very delighted. |
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# {{context|degree}} {{idiomatic}} To a [[great]] [[degree]]; to the greatest degree possible, to excess. |
# {{context|degree}} {{idiomatic}} To a [[great]] [[degree]]; to the greatest degree possible, to excess.<!-- |
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#* '''1915''', [[w:Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson|Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson]], ''[[s:The How and Why Library/Geography/Section IX|The How and Why Library]]'', |
#* '''1915''', [[w:Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson|Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson]], ''[[s:The How and Why Library/Geography/Section IX|The How and Why Library]]'', |
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#*: He had run two miles, through the woods, to see the new baby. There were more wild-cats than babies in the woods of Kentucky. Besides, this baby was his cousin. He said that he was "tickled '''to death'''" to have a boy cousin. |
#*: He had run two miles, through the woods, to see the new baby. There were more wild-cats than babies in the woods of Kentucky. Besides, this baby was his cousin. He said that he was "tickled '''to death'''" to have a boy cousin.--> |
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#* '''1933''', [[w:Choudhary Rahmat Ali|Choudhary Rahmat Ali]] et al., ''[[s:Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?|Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?]]'', |
#* '''1933''', [[w:Choudhary Rahmat Ali|Choudhary Rahmat Ali]] et al., ''[[s:Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?|Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?]]'', |
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#*: Are we to be crucified just to save the faces of our leaders or to bolster up the preposterous that India can be a single nation? Is it with a view to achieve a compromise at all costs, or is it to support the illusion that Hindu nationalism is working in the interests of Muslims as well as Hindus? Irony is flattered '''to death''' by a mental muddle of such a nature and on such a scale. |
#*: Are we to be crucified just to save the faces of our leaders or to bolster up the preposterous that India can be a single nation? Is it with a view to achieve a compromise at all costs, or is it to support the illusion that Hindu nationalism is working in the interests of Muslims as well as Hindus? Irony is flattered '''to death''' by a mental muddle of such a nature and on such a scale. |
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#* '''1989''' December 25, U.S. government [[w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service|Foreign Broadcast Information Service]] (translator), ''[[s:Transcript of the closed trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu|Transcript of the closed trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu]]'' (translated transcript of trial shown on Romanian and Austrian television), |
#* '''1989''' December 25, U.S. government [[w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service|Foreign Broadcast Information Service]] (translator), ''[[s:Transcript of the closed trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu|Transcript of the closed trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu]]'' (translated transcript of trial shown on Romanian and Austrian television), |
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#*: So far, they have always claimed that we have built this country, we have paid our debts, but with this they bled the country '''to death''' and have hoarded enough money to ensure their escape. |
#*: So far, they have always claimed that we have built this country, we have paid our debts, but with this they bled the country '''to death''' and have hoarded enough money to ensure their escape. |
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#* '''2010''' October 27, [[w:The Sydney Morning Herald|The Sydney Morning Herald]], ''Howard says leader[s]hip row 'done '''to death'''' '', |
#* '''2010''' October 27, [[w:The Sydney Morning Herald|The Sydney Morning Herald]], ''Howard says leader[s]hip row 'done '''to death'''' '', |
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#*: "I don't want to revisit his view and my view about whether I should have retired and who said what then," he told ABC Radio. |
#*: "I don't want to revisit his view and my view about whether I should have retired and who said what then," he told ABC Radio. |
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#*:"That's been done '''to death'''." |
#*:"That's been done '''to death'''." |
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===Derived expressions=== |
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*[[Tickled to death]] |
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[[Category:English degree adverbs]] |
[[Category:English degree adverbs]] |
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Revision as of 12:35, 13 February 2011
English
Adverb
(deprecated template usage) to death
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- (deprecated template usage) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 376: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "degree" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. Template:idiomatic To a great degree; to the greatest degree possible, to excess.
- 1933, Choudhary Rahmat Ali et al., Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?,
- Are we to be crucified just to save the faces of our leaders or to bolster up the preposterous that India can be a single nation? Is it with a view to achieve a compromise at all costs, or is it to support the illusion that Hindu nationalism is working in the interests of Muslims as well as Hindus? Irony is flattered to death by a mental muddle of such a nature and on such a scale.
- 1989 December 25, U.S. government Foreign Broadcast Information Service (translator), Transcript of the closed trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu (translated transcript of trial shown on Romanian and Austrian television),
- So far, they have always claimed that we have built this country, we have paid our debts, but with this they bled the country to death and have hoarded enough money to ensure their escape.
- 2010 October 27, The Sydney Morning Herald, Howard says leader[s]hip row 'done to death' ,
- "I don't want to revisit his view and my view about whether I should have retired and who said what then," he told ABC Radio.
- "That's been done to death."
- 1933, Choudhary Rahmat Ali et al., Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?,
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to a great degree
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