DEAD ON ONE'S FEET Definition & Meaning

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Also, dead tired . Extremely weary, as in Mom was in the kitchen all day and was dead on her feet , or I'd love to go, but I'm dead tired . The use of dead for 鈥渢ired to exhaustion鈥� dates from the early 1800s, and dead on one's feet , conjuring up the image of a dead person still standing up, dates from the late 1800s.

Related 亚洲网紅露点s

annoyed
bored
distressed
drained
exasperated
fatigued
irritated
overworked
sleepy
stale

Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

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