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To look totally exhausted or ill.
'I look like death warmed up and what I feel is nobody's business'
Ngaio Marsh in Death and the Dancing Footman (1942)
The expression appeared earlier in a dictionary of war slang from the 2nd World War.
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Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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