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do to death en · VERB
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Of a trope, joke, topic, idea, etc, to use so often that it becomes trite.
If you're interested in the process we're using for redecking the ship, we've absolutely done that to death. There's links to several different videos in the description below.
2023 January 27, Battleship New Jersey, 4:07 from the start, in Maintaining Your Battleship: Jan 2023 Update:It's hard to find novel screenplays. All the usual stories have been done to death.
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(obsolete) To put to death.
So will I not […] Behold ſo many of my country men,
All done to death and ſtrangled in one day, […]
1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act IV:
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