drop dead
Example Sentences
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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
Diamond has often said that democracies, with their strong protections for civil liberties and the rule of law, don’t drop dead of a heart attack.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 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
Whatever Momma meant by more involved, I’d drop dead of shock if anything changed.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
