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die to
Idioms and Phrases
Also, be dying to . Long greatly to do something, as in I'm dying to go to Alaska . [c. 1700] Also see die for .Example Sentences
Campbell learned how to become a conciliator and a mediator — how to let trivial gripes die, to smooth things over for the greater good, to not let greed get in the way of the big picture.
Someone has to die to develop vaccines.
"The petition is really eye-opening, and basically says that winning a partisan election is apparently so important that the candidate who was behind after all the votes were counted would be willing to deny the fundamental right to vote of our nation’s finest — men and women in uniform serving overseas who are prepared to die to defend our country and their immediate family members — in order to make up his deficit in the vote count," said Louis Caldera, former U.S. secretary of the army during the Clinton administration.
A woman whose baby received a donated organ following the death of a teenager has spoken of her "guilt" about the fact someone had to die to save her son.
Donaldson said at one stage: "I'll die to keep this country pure and if it means bloodshed at the end of the day, then let it be."
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