die to

Idioms and Phrases

Also, be dying to . Long greatly to do something, as in I'm dying to go to Alaska . [c. 1700] Also see die for .

Example Sentences

If the old man should die to-night would the old woman have need to say, Forgive me.

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No, I do not think he is going to die to-night, though Dr Wainwright thought it could not be long.

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I would rather die to-morrow in the ruin of his house, than live like this; I cannot do it, Honoria.

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I should think it very foolish to do so, as we could not take it away, and it would die to-morrow from the heat of the sun.

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Then she put it to him: "Do you pretend that if I were to die to-morrow you'd stay in the House?"

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