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Idioms and Phrases
The living and the dead, as in The explosion was loud enough to wake the quick and the dead . Although quick has been used for “living” since the 9th century a.d. , it survives only in this idiom and in cut to the quick , and may be obsolescent.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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