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die and go to heaven en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (in metaphor and simile, not used alone) To have an extremely pleasant experience.
    • Vegetarians will think they've died and gone to heaven, especially in Kits, the former center of hippiedom. 1999, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Vancouver, page 57:
    • It's like I died and went to heaven!
    • His gaze dropped to her slender ankles then to her shoes. Yowzah! She wore white-strapped sandals with at least four-inch heels. Now he knew he was dreaming—or he'd died and gone to heaven. 2005, Micqui Miller, Sweet Caroline:
    • I must've died and gone to heaven / Cos it was quarter past eleven / On a Saturday in 1999 1996 November 25, Jay Kay, Derrick McKenzie, “Cosmic Girl”, performed by Jamiroquai:

Forms

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died and gone to heaven Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dies and goes to heaven Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
died and went to heaven Tense=Past lexicographic
dying and going to heaven Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic