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Phrase(s): dead to the world
1. sound asleep. • After all that exercise, he’s dead to the world. • He’s dead to the world, and I can’t rouse him. 2. intoxicated. • Six beers and he was dead to the world. • By midnight almost everybody at the party was dead to the world.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs