to the death
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[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (set phrase, of a contest) That will continue until one of the contestants dies.
- The two gladiators fought to the death.
- (idiomatic) To the utmost degree.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 208:
- Then, alluding with a toss of the head to the tumult in the station-yard, ‘When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages - hate them to the death.’ He remained thoughtful for a moment.
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[edit]that one will die
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to the utmost degree
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