fit to wake the dead

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Meanings:

1.
United StatesUnited KingdomInternationalinformalidiomatic
- Extremely loud; of such volume that it could (figuratively) rouse the dead.
2.
Figurative originInternationalneutralliteral
- So loud as to be capable of waking someone who is deeply asleep (literal imagery behind the idiom).

Examples:

EN: Listen to it, blowin' fit to wake the dead.
HI: वैतरणी को तार दे, जाग मनुष अब जाग।

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