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"catch your death" is an idiom that is commonly used in both spoken and written English.
You can use it to refer to someone coming down with a severe illness, usually due to not dressing warmly enough in cold weather. For example, "If you don't wear a coat, you'll catch your death!".
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You'll catch your death.
"You will catch your death of cold".
"You'll catch your death, you know".
Re " 'You'll Catch Your Death!' An Old Wives' Tale?
Leigh's usual class divide - salt-of-the-earth geezers v frozen upper classes - is only hinted at, and a world of Worker's Playtime, bread and dripping and one bar of the electric fire to heat a household is evocative and real, like the dialogue, all "You'll catch your death", and "I can't complain".
"You'll catch your death of cold", my grandmother always used to warn me, if I ever dared to leave the house on a winter's day without drying my hair properly.
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And yet, skeptical as you are, you long for the Lovers or the Ten of Cups to appear in your spread, and catch your breath with fright if Death or the Hanged Man pops up.
"She'll catch her death of cold".
Female version: "She'll catch her death!" – see any Rihanna video for details.
And most importantly, if it's Christmas and she goes outside in that sparkly purple top, she's going to catch her death….
Taken in by relatives of his father, Eric was relocated to Berlin in 1931 — just in time to catch the death agony of the Weimar Republic.
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