Timeline for What is the meaning of the phrase to "wake up dead"
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| Mar 17, 2022 at 22:17 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | I suggest you go with Cascabel. | |
| Mar 15, 2022 at 21:45 | comment | added | Bumptious Q Bangwhistle | @RobbieGoodwin not sure what you mean by "What research is shown...". However, "wake up dead" has a least a passing resemblance to "you look like death warmed over", which certainly does not mean dead. | |
| Apr 8, 2021 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1379992622438219776 | ||
| Apr 1, 2021 at 21:48 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | What research is shown by "I've always assumed it meant hungover or otherwise ailing, but I'm not sure…"? | |
| Mar 31, 2021 at 12:25 | vote | accept | Bumptious Q Bangwhistle | ||
| Mar 31, 2021 at 4:24 | answer | added | alephzero | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 13:39 | answer | added | Peter Fox | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 3:30 | answer | added | jmoreno | timeline score: -2 | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 0:29 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Mar 30, 2021 at 0:01 | comment | added | BoldBen | If you believe in a conscious afterlife then there is no contradiction. Waking up is a return to consciousness and, if you died in your sleep, you would return to consciousness, albeit the consciousness of the afterlife. You would wake up dead. | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 18:17 | comment | added | rhetorician | In rhetoric, the trope that is found in the phrase "wake up dead" is an oxymoron, which pits two seemingly irreconcilable concepts side by side, sometimes--but not always--for humorous effect. Examples: deafening silence (as when you are on the "outs" with your spouse); He's proud of his humility; a fretful calm (the feeling a teenager gets on his way home from being in a minor car accident when he thinks how he's going to tell his parents; and serious play (that is how many kids engage in what we adults call play, but to the kids, it's hard work they take seriously. | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 17:55 | comment | added | Mitch | This is not a set phrase. It's just a clever juxtaposition of contrary elements because of course it is impossible to be dead and wake up. If you're confused by it, then you're reading the language right - it's intended to be contrary. | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 17:40 | comment | added | Weather Vane | "Sleepin' under a table in a roadside park, a man could wake up dead" is a way of saying that it is dangerous to sleep there. Of course you can't wake up if you are dead, but it is a humorous expression used sometimes. | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 17:00 | answer | added | Cascabel_StandWithUkraine_ | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 16:58 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 29, 2021 at 16:35 | answer | added | Pete | timeline score: 18 | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 16:24 | history | asked | Bumptious Q Bangwhistle | CC BY-SA 4.0 |