wake the dead

verb

Definitions

  1. To be very loud

    To be very loud; to produce a very loud or disruptive noise.

    • For God's sake, kids, pipe down — you're going to wake the dead with that racket!
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wake, the, dead: to hold a wake over a deceased person.

    • Meronyms: eulogize; elegize

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