cheat death
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare French trompe-la-mort.
Verb
[edit]cheat death (third-person singular simple present cheats death, present participle cheating death, simple past and past participle cheated death)
- To survive a situation which would be expected to result in death.
- Synonym: cheat fate
- 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Therapy:
- From Olar, Han
Shepard,
They say you're alive. That you cheated death. That sending you this isn't just a pointless exercise as part of my therapy. They say a lot of things.
- 2015, Ron Barnett, “World War II vets who cheated death twice honor their fallen brothers”, in The Greenville News[1], retrieved 11 August 2019:
- The Greenville resident, and the other remaining survivors of World War II, have cheated death twice, escaping with their lives in a deadliest military conflict in history and then outliving their life expectancy to enjoy the fruits of their service.
- 2015 October 5, Tom Mullen, “Surviving eight Nazi death camps”, in BBC News[2], retrieved 11 August 2019:
- A Holocaust survivor who cheated death in eight Nazi concentration camps during World War Two has recalled his experiences, 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.
- 2023 November 15, Nick Brodrick, “Okehampton's rejuvenated station is 'ACE'”, in RAIL, number 996, page 50:
- Having cheated death twice, Okehampton's successful revival was recognised at RAIL's National Rail Awards in September, with victory in the Small Station of the Year category.
Translations
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Further reading
[edit]- “cheat death”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “cheat death fate etc” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary[3], Cambridge University Press, 2008, →ISBN, page 230