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Chris -- 2018-04-11
For twenty years or more, a friend has been using the expression “death swarmed over”. Pretty descriptive—yet only 2 hits on google!
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What a gruesome image. (At least for me it is cockroaches swarming over the corpse — is that what the rest of you got too?)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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“You look like death swarmed over” might be just an intensified form: death has swarmed over you. It’s certainly stronger than “death warmed over”, like leftovers. I’m not sure which form cockroaches would prefer. Or the worms.
Motorcycle camping trip
I was kind of out of it from to much drinking and not much sleep and I looked like death wormed over by the time we were at the lodge.
Last edited by David Bird (2010-07-17 20:01:03)
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Here’s another variant-
What better way to start this than when I’m laid up with the flu, snot nosed, feeling like death warned over.
www.wouldashouldacoulda.blogspot.com/
Years back I noticed Mondays were always a drag, people going into work like death warned over …
https://www.klove.com/.../Josh-Wilson-i … ence!.aspx
I still feel like death warned over, but at least I was practically comatose for 10 hours and I don’t remember a thing.
tatersmamastakeonthings.blogspot.com/.../someone-just-shoot-me-please.html
I felt like death warned over, chills, fever, fatigue, the whole nine yards. Instead of visiting family for the holidays, spent five days in …
www.ticklephile.com/showthread.php?p=496461
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‘Death warned over’ is beguiling but I see that N is right next to M and that it’s possible to find:
‘Before exercising, always do warning-up exercises first
Îo warning-up exercises were performed prior to the initial flexibility measurements
Warning up Exercises for Choirs’
which makes me wonder how much ‘death warned over’ is a typo. Not all the time, though.
Oh and I see hits for ‘worming pan’, which doesn’t bear too much thinking about.
Last edited by JuanTwoThree (2010-07-22 14:26:39)
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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