more dead than alive

Exhausted, in poor condition, as in By the time I got off that mountain I was more dead than alive. This idiom may be used either hyperbolically or literally. [c. 1900]

Words nearby more dead than alive

mordvin, mordvinian republic, more, more and more, more bang for the buck, more dead than alive, more dict., more fun than a barrel of monkeys, more in sorrow than in anger, more often than not, more or less