die roaring
verb1
Ireland, Colloquial, Dated To die in agony, especially as divine punishment for a wicked life.
- May you die roaring like Doran's bull!1910, Patrick Weston Joyce, “Comparisons”, in English as we speak it in Ireland, London: Longmans, Green, page 137:
- "Did you ever see a fellow hanged?" "I saw dozens of them," he assured me solemnly, "and they all died roaring."1939 March, Frank O'Connor, “First Confession”, in Harper's Bazaar:
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- The genial, white-haired Malachy also enthralled the audience with grim jokes about how Henry VIII and Randolph Churchill died roaring from syphillis.1997 September 13, “The court of Malachy”, in The Irish Times:
- Related terms
- die roaring for a priest