die roaring
English
Verb phrase
die roaring (third-person singular simple present dies roaring, present participle dying roaring, simple past and past participle died roaring)
- (Ireland, colloquial, dated) die in agony, especially as divine punishment for a wicked life
- 1910 Patrick Weston Joyce "Comparisons" p.137 English as we speak it in Ireland (London: Longmans, Green)
- May you die roaring like Doran's bull!
- 1939 March, Frank O'Connor, "First Confession", Harper's Bazaar:
- "Did you ever see a fellow hanged?"
- "I saw dozens of them," he assured me solemnly, "and they all died roaring."
- 1997 September 13 "The court of Malachy" The Irish Times
- The genial, white-haired Malachy also enthralled the audience with grim jokes about how Henry VIII and Randolph Churchill died roaring from syphillis.
- 1910 Patrick Weston Joyce "Comparisons" p.137 English as we speak it in Ireland (London: Longmans, Green)
Related terms
- die roaring for a priest