wake the dead
verbDefinitions
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!
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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