Idiom
wake the dead
Meaning
To be very loud; to produce a very loud or disruptive noise.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That loud music could wake the dead.”
“Please turn down the television because the volume is loud enough to wake the dead.”
“The sudden, thunderous crash of the falling tree echoed through the valley with a force sufficient to wake the dead.”
Examples
simple
“That loud music could wake the dead.”
contextual
“Please turn down the television because the volume is loud enough to wake the dead.”
complex
“The sudden, thunderous crash of the falling tree echoed through the valley with a force sufficient to wake the dead.”
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