Meaning: Describing something as a fate worse than death is a fairly common way of implying that it is unpleasant.
- Category: Death
Idioms similar to 'Fate worse than death'
- Done to death
- Brush with death
- Dice with death
- At death's door
- Death warmed up
- Cheat death
- Kiss of death
- Sick to death
- Death of a thousand cuts
- Matter of life and death
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