10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CATCH ONE'S DEATH»
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English
Grose, 2nd ed. catch cold by lying in bed barefoot (, e. g. he would). A mid-C.18-
early 19 c.p. applied to a person fussy about his health. Grose, 2nd ed. catch
copper. To come to harm: C.16-17: s. > coll. Palsgrave (OED). catch (one's) death
.
... go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go
to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural
death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's
death; ...
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A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms ...
The work goes on until Friday night, and then the break which gives one time to
get one's breath again. catch one's death • meet one's death catch one's death—(
coll.) catch a severe cold that may be fatal (also: catch one's death of cold): She ...
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Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
... General John Mitchell suggested that if Katherine Graham, proprietor of the
Washington Post, were to permit the printing of revelations on White House
involvement, she would 'catch her big fat at in a wringer'] catch one's death (of
cold) v.
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Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, Classified and ...
... the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, die a natural death, go
out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death ; go oft'
the hooks, kick the bucket, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death &c.
Peter Mark Roget, John Lewis Roget, 1883
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Roget's International Thesaurus
... a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the
bucket, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death &c. (be killed) 361.
Adj. dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct; late, gone, no more; ex
- ...
Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson, 1911
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Roget's Thesaurus of English words and phrases: classified ...
... make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle;
come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, hop
the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death &c. (be killed) 361. Adj. dead ...
Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson, Peter Mark Roget, 1911
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The World's Cyclopedia of Expression: Words Classified ...
... the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, die a natural death, go
out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off
the hooks, kick the bucket, hop the twig, turn up one's toes ; die a violent death &c
.
Peter Mark Roget, John Lewis Roget, 1882
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Roget's Thesaurus of English words & phrases: classified & ...
... death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the
snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks,
kick the bucket, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death &c. (be killed)
361 ...
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Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
... make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle;
come to an untimely end ; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket,
hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death &c. (be killed) 361. Adj. dead
...
Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson
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