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About to die Neutral Drop dead [1] Die suddenly Neutral also slang aggressive dismissal Dropping like flies [8] Dying in droves Simile: also falling ill in numbers Drop the Body Died Euphemistic Used by new-age spiritually minded people instead of the term died, suggesting that, while the person's body died, his or her spirit lives on
"Make my skin into drumheads for the Bohemian cause." [17] [67] [68] — Jan Žižka, Czech general (11 October 1424) [note 42] "I die content, after living the prescribed time, and leaving you, my sons, in affluence and health, placed in such a situation as, if you follow my example, will enable you to live honored and respected.
The "Die with your boots on" idiom originates from frontier towns in the 19th-century American West. [1] Some sources (e.g., American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms) say that the phrase probably originally alluded to soldiers who died on active duty.
It has been estimated that the vocabulary of the English language consists of roughly 1 million words (although some linguists take that number with a grain of salt and say they wouldn't be ...
Image credits: -braquo- #6. When I was a teenager, I was sent to military school. I’d always been a bit rough around the edges—kind of a troublemaker—but never a bad person at heart.
The purpose of the game is to make sure that the starting message given by the first person at the beginning of the game is the same message received by the last person. Players begin by either ...
Schadenfreude (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː d ən f r ɔɪ d ə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. Tooltip literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.
The people who create the most stress for their therapists are the ones who don’t engage at all. The people who talk about their pain, on the other hand, are extending an invitation to help. Shortly before I visited her, Whiteside was about to fly home from San Francisco when she received a text.