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LOOK/FEEL LIKE DEATH WARMED OVER

to look/feel ill or exhausted
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1. Sue looked like death warmed over when we went to see her in the hospital after her surgery.
2. I stayed up for three nights straight studying for my philosophy exam and now I feel like death warmed over.

The expression suggests how a person would look or feel if he or she were warmed up after dying, i. e. , still dead.


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