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drop dead

[drop-ded] / ˈdrɒpˌdɛd /




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"Sometimes we'll get called the last piano manufacturer which sounds a bit sad, like you're the last Siberian tiger and it's only a matter of time until you drop dead," he says.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2025

If Elon Musk were to drop dead tomorrow, the damage to Tesla’s share price would be unfathomable, because companies and also dumb crypto tokens get much more valuable when Musk breathes on them.

From Slate Dec. 6, 2024

Physicians identified this phenomenon in the aftermath of World War II, when they observed skeletal concentration-camp survivors and longtime prisoners of war eat high-caloric foods and then drop dead of cardiac failure.

From New York Times Jan. 3, 2024

Then when Joseph took his string of horses to Churchill Downs around this year’s Kentucky Derby, he had two horses drop dead.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 4, 2023

I didn't feel like I was back to my normal self when my mom finally got home from work, but the fear that I was going to drop dead had gradually subsided.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi




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