گزارش خطا در معنی کلمه 'more dead than alive'

1 general:: Phrase(s): more dead than alive Fig. exhausted; in very bad condition; near death. (Almost always an exaggeration.) • We arrived at the top of the mountain more dead than alive. • The marathon runners stumbled one by one over the finish line, more dead than alive.

2 general:: 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]