IdiomThe Absurd
English
Englishlook like death warmed over
Meaning: To look/feel ill or exhausted.
Example: “After two nights of fever, he looked like death warmed over.”
Origin: A comic exaggeration of someone so pale and sickly they look like a corpse that has been reheated. American English from the 1930s; the British version is "death warmed up."
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