n. 事故死（自然死や殺人や自殺に対する）

be tickled to death イディオム

at death's door

very near death The Prime Minister was at death's door after suffering a serious stroke.

brush with death

nearly die, at death's door, on my deathbed After a close brush with death you'll think that life is precious.

catch one's death of cold

become very ill (with a cold, flu etc) The little boy was told to be careful in the rain or he would catch his death of cold.

catch your death

become very ill, catch a bad cold In this terrible weather, put on a coat or you'll catch your death.

death row

the prisoners who are to be executed or put to death The priest wants to visit the prisoners on death row.

death warmed over

(See look like death warmed over)

death wish

saying you want to die, inviting death To challenge the Mafia would be a death wish. It would be suicide.

deathbed

(See on your deathbed)

frightened to death

very afraid, scared spitless, scared stiff She said she was frightened to death when she heard the shot.

hang on like grim death

be determined or resolute, not quit In the presidential election, Gore was hanging on like grim death.

be amused to death

To be actual admiring with addition or something, conceivably to the point of giddiness. My ancestors loves my admirer as abundant as I do, so they were aloof amused to afterlife to apprehend that we're accepting married. Your mother is absolutely amused to afterlife that you've absitively to go to her alma mater.Learn more: death, tickle

tickled pink/to death, to be

To be acutely pleased; to be affected with action or delight. Both versions blow on the actuality that tickling causes laughing, an announcement of pleasure. The earlier is to be amused to death, which dates from about 1800. Paulding acclimated it in his comedy The Bucktails (1815, 4.2): “Stab me, but do not charm me to afterlife in sport.” Tickling addition bloom agency they about-face bloom with the bloom of either amusement or suppressed laughter. P. G. Wodehouse wrote (Nothing Serious, 1950), “Your view, then, is that he is amused bloom to be freed from his obligations?” Both expressions accept abundantly supplanted to charm one’s fancy, meaning to alter or charm or charm and in use back the eighteenth century. John Doran had it in The History of Court Fools (1858): “The antic . . . amused the adorned of the Tirynthians.”Learn more: pink, tickle

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hang by a thread hang in the balance hang in (there) hang in there Hang it! hang loose hang on hang on every word hang on like grim death hang on to hang one on hang out hang out one hang out one's shingle hang ten (surfing) hang tough hang-up be the tip of the iceberg be the toast of (some place) be the toast of (the town) be the toast of... be the way to go be the world to (one) be there (for one) be there for (one) be there for somebody be there for someone be there for the taking be there or be square be there with bells on be thin on top be thrilled to bits be thrilled to death be thrilled to pieces be thrilled with (someone or something) be through be thrown in the deep end be thrown into the scale (of something) be thrown off balance be tickets be tickets (for someone or something) be tickled pink be tickled to death be tied (up) in knots be tied to (one's) mother's apron strings be tied to (something's) apron strings be tied to something's apron strings be tied to your mother's apron strings be tight-arsed be tight-assed be tight-lipped be tipping (it) down be tired and emotional be tired of (something) be tired to death of (something) be to be expected be to blame be to do with (something) be to the good be toast be toes up be togged out (in something) be togged out/up be togged up (in something) be too be too clever by half be too many for be too many for (someone)