dead tired

Idioms and Phrases

see dead on one's feet .

Example Sentences

“He was dead tired and he was still talking. ... He definitely brings fear out of people because like they see he’s confident. And he backs up everything he says.”

From Los Angeles Times

“Why would you walk away from the best job, in the world, that you absolutely love? Come Sunday, kick off? Trust me. Sunday at one o’clock or four o’clock, it still excites me. And I get on that plane at night, dead tired, thinking, ‘You just worked a football game.’”

From Los Angeles Times

Runner number 401 was dead tired and suffering from low blood pressure.

From New York Times

“In my darker moments now, I still remember coming back dead tired from perhaps a 10-hour trip … and maybe one or two aircraft were still missing and you’d hope that maybe they’d landed somewhere for fuel, or they’d got battle damage and they’d be along later,” he told the BBC in 2020.

From Seattle Times

Even though it was after ten and we were dead tired from playing five games and wanted to get home, he made us help clean the restaurant.

From Literature

Related Words

• bored
• disgusted
• exhausted
• fatigued
• impatient
• jaded
• overworked
• sleepy