strong as death

English

Adjective

strong as death (not comparable)

  1. (simile) Very strong or emotionally powerful.
    • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
      Now alive as he was to all these searching argumentative itemizings of the minutest known facts any way bearing upon the subject; and yet, at the same time, persuaded, strong as death, that in spite of them, Isabel was indeed his sister; how could Pierre […] fail to acknowledge the existence of that all-controlling and all-permeating wonderfulness […] denominated The Finger of God?
    • 1877, Edward William Lewis Davies, Frank Raleigh of Watercombe (page 247)
      With this feeling strong as death upon him, he crumpled up the letters into one mass and tossed them precipitately into the fire.
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