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life-and-death

[lahyf-uhn-deth]
–adjective
ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.


Origin:
1680–90
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life and death

see matter of life and death.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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