Back from the Dead
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Why is not "come back from the Death? What would be right is to say "come back from Death", but that's not really idiomatic. Sometimes ppl do say "conquered Death", or "came back from Death's door". Nothing more needs to be said, as the quote means literally: By clicking "Post Your Answer", you acknowledge that you have read our updated terms of service , privacy policy and cookie policy , and that your continued use of the website is subject to these policies. Home Questions Tags Users Unanswered.
Dead is not a noun, so I don't see why the sentence is correct. BTW, the dead is a noun phrase. Kris I'm sorry you are mistaken and it's a mistake that I also made initially. The dictionary references, I cited, prove this. Do you see how "the dead" in the previous sentence has a different meaning? This is not the case of the definite article being used with an adjective to make a category, e.
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In the OP's example, it is about death. MariLouA Oh come on, that's empty argumentation. It harks back to a time when most people thought the dead went somewhere after they died, and might come back to haunt them later. However, since you can't literally come back to life, "the dead" almost always used figuratively.
Mari-LouA, as abundantly demonstrated by Mr Christ below, you're just wrong on this. It's too late to edit out the last sentence in your comment, so you're better off just clearing it. For what it's worth to life is not a verbal phrase either.
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It's not an infinitive misspelling of 'live'; it's a locative adverb about sth going from among the dead things to life: But for the main thing, here dead is a noun, usually a plural one. Nor canst thou show the dead are dead.
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Note please the plural concord with the verb are. The OED says of it: When therefore he was risen from the dead , And in the Vulgate ran like this in Latin: Kris Some people haven't been speaking it all their lives you know. In fact, as this answer shows, it does mean precisely this: Just to add to the already very well explained: So, if in the translation we choose "corpse" , which unlike "dead" have a distinct plural, we'd have: Adam Kelly 2. Mari-LouA No, it is referring to a group of people.
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The phrase refers to somebody coming back after visiting and having a lava lake side drink? Of course the phrase refers to resurrection or something like it. But its way of expressing this is, figuratively, by referring to the dead people that the subject of the phrase is coming back from. It merely means that we have additional information in this particular case. KonradRudolph It's true the etymology and biblical meaning of "from the dead" are "from the [group of] dead people".
If extinct animals could be brought back from the dead, should we do it?
But I'd say it has become enough of an English idiom that this is no longer necessarily the intended or commonly understood meaning. Someone who doesn't believe there is any meaningful community of dead people can use the phrase anyway.
And it can be used figuratively of a non-living thing, like a piece of hardware, a meme, etc. Debating this simply makes no sense. In Oxford Living Dictionaries, scroll the page until you reach Phrases , and there you'll find the following fixed phrase from the dead From a state of death. To reappear or regain popularity after a period of absence or decline If you don't do exactly what I want at my funeral, I'll come back from the dead and harass you all!
After all, this was a company that, by all appearances, had risen from the dead. I haven't seen her in years, and now she's suddenly come back from the dead, so she must want something. I bought bell-bottoms because '70s fashions are coming back from the dead. If someone or something comes back from the dead or rises from the dead , they become active or successful again after a period of being inactive or unsuccessful.
I could not believe I had done it. I had come back from the dead and my career had survived the ultimate test. After all, this was a company that, by all appearances, had risen from the dead. You can also say that someone raises something from the dead when they make it active or successful again after a period of being inactive or unsuccessful.
The company has been working on the scheme to raise this inner-city area from the dead since References in periodicals archive? It's like coming back from the dead that night against Dortmund.
European Cup could be Reds' again - Owen. The Munsters is raised from the TV grave. Turkey were one of only three nations yet to score but their drought ended after ten minutes and set up the possibility of them coming back from the dead. Turks face a waiting game after win.
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Djoko is not on Murray after comeback win. Live today IN movies, anything can happen, including coming back from the dead as a person made of snowflakes.
Lessons in Life from festive films. My life support is yours to turn off and this time I won't be coming back from the dead. A plea to the top from heart of the workforce. During this phase, Mumbai have won the IPL and the Champions League T20 once, apart from coming back from the dead after five losses in a row last year to make the play-offs.