wake the dead
verb1
Figuratively, Idiomatic, Informal 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
Uncommon Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wake, the, dead: to hold a wake over a deceased person.
- Meronyms: eulogize; elegize